Portal Definition and 23 Threads

The portal vein or hepatic portal vein (HPV) is a blood vessel that carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, gallbladder, pancreas and spleen to the liver. This blood contains nutrients and toxins extracted from digested contents. Approximately 75% of total liver blood flow is through the portal vein, with the remainder coming from the hepatic artery proper. The blood leaves the liver to the heart in the hepatic veins.
The portal vein is not a true vein, because it conducts blood to capillary beds in the liver and not directly to the heart. It is a major component of the hepatic portal system, one of only two portal venous systems in the body – with the hypophyseal portal system being the other.
The portal vein is usually formed by the confluence of the superior mesenteric, splenic veins, inferior mesenteric, left, right gastric veins and the pancreatic vein.
Conditions involving the portal vein cause considerable illness and death. An important example of such a condition is elevated blood pressure in the portal vein. This condition, called portal hypertension, is a major complication of cirrhosis. In abdominal obesity fats, inflammatory cytokines and other toxic substances are transported to by the portal vein from visceral fat into the liver, leading to hepatic insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

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    Solar eclipse portal movie

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    Opening a portal to the center of the Sun

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  3. K

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  4. Dopplershift

    Exploring Physics Concepts with Portal: A Teacher's Perspective

    So I have found this awesome resource called 'Teaching with Portal" For those who do not know, Portal is a puzzle game where players have to solve challenges given certain components in the environment that they are in. Somebody has created a "Teaching with Portal" lesson plans (found here)...
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    What would you do if you thought you'd found a portal?

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  6. Liam C

    B What are the potential alternatives to traditional teleportation and portals?

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    "The Portal problem" (Classical Mechanics solution)

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  8. Toby N

    An Endless Fall: Exploring a Fictional Paradox

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    Portal (Approximate) Method of Analysis: Superposition

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  10. Doug Huffman

    CERN announces Open Data Portal

    http://opendata.cern.ch/ http://opendata.cern.ch/about
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    Could there be a portal inside or near the sun?

    Could there be a portal inside or near the sun? Consider the magnetic field and energy of the sun.
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    Portal Physics Scenario: A or B? Input from Physics Forum Community

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    Engineering problem on lateral force to a simple portal frame

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  14. J

    Portal A & B question (maybe a paradox)

    This question comes from a doubt i had while playing the popular puzzle game Portal. 1-Lets say hypothetically that we have portals, and we can move them around freely. We have portal A & B. When you enter portal A you come out through portal B and vise versa. In the case of being placed...
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    Anyone here play portal? Mechanics question

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    Anyone here play Portal? Portal + Relativity question

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    Reinforced Concrete Portal Frame

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    Paranormal Phenomena in GA | Mirrors Creating Portal Consultation

    Is there anybody here in the GA area or that would be accessible by way of phone for consultation regarding matters of paranormal phenomena? Someone preferably who has a genuine interest in the field. I was attempting to do research on an idea that facing two mirrors together creates a...
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    New LHC monitoring portal LIVE DATA

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    If a Portal appeared in front of you, would you step through it?

    Imagine someday when you're going about your daily life, a Portal suddenly appears in front of you.. HOW SHOCKING! I mean, who knows how it happened - maybe an Alien civilization 1.5 billion years more advanced than us, accidently created this portal in a wrong time/space/dimension, and you're...
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    Audi Q7 Problems? Dgimi Can Help!

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  22. J

    Portal Discussion: Human at Speed of Light

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    What do you think of http://www.webqc.org?

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