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  • Title: Contribution of the umbilical and portal veins to the hepatic blood supply of guinea pig fetuses--an angiographic study.
    Author: Carter AM, Detmer A, Egund N.
    Journal: Lab Anim Sci; 1992 Apr; 42(2):174-9. PubMed ID: 1318452.
    Abstract:
    The interlobular distribution of the umbilical and portal venous blood flow within the liver was examined in 35 guinea pig fetuses between 59 and 65 days of gestation. Contrast medium was injected into the umbilical or vitelline vein, and its passage through the liver was monitored by serial angiography. In four experiments, injections were made into both the umbilical and vitelline veins of the same fetus. To ease interpretation of the angiograms obtained in vivo, we also made a postmortem examination of livers in which the venous system had been filled with an aqueous suspension of barium sulphate in gelatin. These combined experiments demonstrated no passage of contrast medium from the placenta to the inferior vena cava, which is in accordance with independent evidence that the term guinea pig fetus lacks a functional ductus venosus. The area supplied by the umbilical and portal veins was clearly and consistently delineated. The umbilical vein supplied the left lobe and the left sublobe of the quadrate lobe. The portal vein supplied the right lobe, the smaller caudate lobe, and all or most of the right sublobe of the quadrate lobe. This pattern of distribution appears to be determined by flow and pressure gradients within the hepatic circulation.
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