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प्रश्न
What is the significance of hepatic portal system in the circulatory system?
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उत्तर
The hepatic portal vein carries blood from the intestine to liver before it is delivered to the systemic circulation. This is significant because excess nutrients like glucose are converted into glycogen in the liver and stored there.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Describe double circulation in human beings.
What is the significance of double circulation?
Name the two types of transport systems in the human beings.
Which blood vessel does not carry any carbon dioxide?
What is the difference between pulmonary circulation and systemic circulation?
Differentiate between the following pair of terms: Pulmonary artery and pulmonary vein
State the Location: Hepatic portal vein
In which of the following organisms double circulation occurs?
In which of the following groups of organisms, blood flows through the heart only once during one cycle of passage through the body?
Why is the small intestine in herbivores longer than in carnivores?
In double circulatory system, the function of veins is to carry ______.
Name the vascular connection that exists between the digestive tract and liver.
Explain the advantage of the complete partition of ventricle among birds and mammals and hence leading to double circulation.
Write a note on closed circulation.
Oxygenated blood to the liver is supplied by ______.
From where to where do the following blood vessel carry blood?
Posterior vena cava
From where to where do the following blood vessel carry blood?
Hepatic portal vein
