human_reference_atlas Homo sapiens ventral pancreatic duct http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Gray1100.png Wikipedia:Pancreatic_duct MA:0000126 UMLS:C0030288 uberon duct of Wirsung EHDAA:6905 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] RETIRED_EHDAA2:0002177 main pancreatic duct (duct of wirsung) GAID:337 UBERON:0001064 AS hepaticopancreatic duct EMAPA:17510 Main pancreatic duct (Duct of Wirsung) UBERON:0005627 FMA:16003 A duct joining the pancreas to the common bile duct to supply pancreatic juices which aid in digestion provided by the exocrine pancreas. The pancreatic duct joins the common bile duct just prior to the ampulla of Vater, after which both ducts perforate the medial side of the second portion of the duodenum at the major duodenal papilla. MESH:D010183 main pancreatic duct EDITOR_NOTE in EHDAA2 this is an epithelium, in FMA the wall consists of epithelium and connective tissue canal of Wirsung Upon reaching its final destination, the ventral pancreatic bud fuses with the much larger dorsal pancreatic bud. At this point of fusion, the main ducts of the ventral and dorsal pancreatic buds fuse, forming the duct of Wirsung, the main pancreatic duct. pancreatic duct SCTID:245385001 BTO:0002362 NCIT:C12272 VHOG:0000256 EHDAA2:0001396 chief pancreatic duct ductus pancreatis ventralis pancreatic duct