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The Hepatic Portal System Chapter 22 Hepatic Portal System • The liver is the only digestive organ drained by the inferior vena cava - blood leaving the capillary beds supplied by the celiac and superior and inferior mesenteric arteries flows into the veins of the hepatic portal system - a blood vessel connecting 2 capillary beds is a portal vessel and the network is a portal system • Venous blood that absorbs nutrients from the small intestine, parts of the large intestine, stomach, and pancreas flows directly to the liver - regulates levels of nutrients and amino acids in the circulating blood The Hepatic Portal System Figure 22.26 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings