Title : Fat digestion by lingual lipase: mechanism of lipolysis in the stomach and upper small intestine.

Pub. Date : 1984 May

PMID : 6728567






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1 The data presented show that partially purified preparations of rat lingual lipase and the lipase in gastric aspirates of newborn infants have identical substrate specificity: medium-chain triglycerides were hydrolyzed at rates 5-8-fold higher than long-chain triglycerides; the rat and human enzymes do not hydrolyze the ester bond of lecithin or cholesteryl-ester. Esters lipase G, endothelial type Rattus norvegicus