pancreas

Question 1

where is the pancreas found?

Answer 1

between stomach (pylorus) and liver
dorsal to the abdominal cavity

Question 2

where are the lobes

Answer 2

right lobe is mesoduodenum
left lobe is deep, lies in deep leaf of greater omentum

Question 3

how is it vascularised?

Answer 3

cranial mesenteric and celiac artery

Question 4

where does the pancreatic duct open to

Answer 4

to duodenum with bile duct

Question 5

what are the ducts ?

Answer 5

pancreatic
accessory

Question 6

what is the endocrine function?

Answer 6

making insulin and gucagon

Question 7

what is the exocrine function?

Answer 7

making pancreatic juice

Question 8

how does pancreatic juice reach the duodenum?
what are the expections?

Answer 8

secreted through the pancreatic duct
in goats and sheep pancreatic duct joins common bile duct (mix enters duodenum)

Question 9

what makes up pancreatic juice?

Answer 9

HCO3-
CL-
lipases, amylases, proteases

Question 10

what activates the enzymes

Answer 10

trypsin