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Pancreatic lipase

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, which can hydrolyze the ester bond in a wide range of ester compounds, is a 46KD, water-soluble enzyme secreted from pancreas.

Pancreatic lipase is clearly essential for the efficient digestion of dietary . triglycerides are firstly emusified by Bile salts in the duodenum. And then, the lipase can break them into fat acids and glycerol more efficiently due to larger surface area of emusion of fat than the bulk ones.