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How is pancreatic lipase activated? Is it by trypsin?


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  #3

Not tyrypsin. Lipase is activated in the presence of bile salts and colipase at the water-substrate interface.


  #4

I agree with paraboxa, you need Colipase to displace bile salts from the micelles so that lipas can attach to it and digest it.










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