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Where does pancreatic juice perform its digestive role and how does it get there?
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∙ 13y ago
Pancreatic juice performs its functions in the duodenum. It gets there by traveling through the pancreatic duct then enters the duodenum through the hepatopancreatic ampulla (ampulla of Vater).
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