A duct that collects and carries secretions of the exocrine pancreas to the intestine. [ GOC:cvs https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9900-7880 https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/1250 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2244-7917 GOC:ymb https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic_duct ]
Synonyms: duct of pancreas pancreas duct
Term information
- ZFA:0001372
- VHOG:0000254
- MESH:D010183
- Wikipedia:Pancreatic_duct
- MA:0000124
- EMAPA:32952
- TAO:0001372
- SCTID:181278006
- FMA:10419
- EHDAA:9194
pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
Duct connecting the pancreas with the intestine. [Dorian_AF, Elsevier's_encyclopaedic_dictionary_of_medicine, Part_B:_Anatomy_(1988)_Amsterdam_etc.:_Elsevier][VHOG]
These data show that ducts within the zebrafish pancreas originally arise in situ from isolated progenitor cells rather than arising from reiterative branching of the pancreatic epithelium. This process of pancreatic duct formation in zebrafish may be analogous to the mechanism of duct formation in the mammalian mammary and salivary glands. (...) A related mechanism of duct formation has also been proposed to occur within the mammalian pancreatic epithelium.[uncertain][VHOG]
in EHDAA2, the dorsal and ventral ducts are classified as epithelial sacs - review after overhaul of duct/epithelia terms