BIO 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Superior Mesenteric Artery, Masseter Muscle, Hepatic Veins

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Splanchnic circulation - blood vessels that supply and drain the abdominal digestive organs. Arterial supply of the digestive organs - abdominal aorta, including the celiac trunk, superior mesenteric artery, inferior mesenteric artery. Digestive organs are drained by veins into hepatic portal vein. Hepatic portal vein delivers blood to liver for processing. Blood drains from the liver by a set of hepatic veins - deliver blood to the inferior vena cava. Supplied with nerves, most of which are branches from ans. The nerves of the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions that serve the digestive organs are located in three main clusters: celiac plexus, superior mesenteric plexus and inferior mesenteric plexus. Neurons of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, the ens, and even the. Cns are involved in multiple digestive reflex arcs. This is the common passage for food, fluid and air, lying posterior to the nasal and oral cavities (continuous with the oesophagus).

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