All the following are true regarding blood supply to the kidney, except -: (A) Stellate veins drain superficial zone, (B) It is a type of portal-circulation, (C) The renal artery divides into five segmental arteries before entering the hilum, (D) Its segmental arteries are end-arteries
Answer is C. Kidney has five independent vascular segments

Segmental arteries divide into lobar branches.
Area of kidney supplied by lobar artery → renal → includes 1-2 pyramids and the adjacent part of the cortex.
Branches of renal arteries are end arteries.
Renal blood passes through 2 sets of capillary plexus.


High-pressure bed (60 mmHg) of glomerular plexus for filtration.
Low-pressure bed (13mmHg) of peritubular plexus for selective reabsorption and nutrition.

These are connected by efferent glomerular arterioles which act as a renal portal system.