True about shunt vessels:
Correct Answer: >Play a role in thermoregulation
Description: Play a role in thermoregulation Cutaneous shunt vessels have a role in thermoregulation The cutaneous microcirculation can be divided into thermoregulatory shunt vessels and nutritive skin capillaries. These shunt vessels have impoant role in thermoregulation. Nutritive function is performed by skin capillaries and not by shunt vessels. Cutaneous shunt vessels are under the control of Autonomic nervous system Like all other vessels, cutaneous shunt vessels also receive a sympathetic innervations. Cutaneous shunt vessels are not evenly distributed throughout the skin Rich A-V anastomoses are .found in. fingers, toes, ear lobules and nose.
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