The county jurisdiction includes the island of Santa Rosa south of Pensacola; it is not part of Santa Rosa County proper. Escambia County is part of the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent Metropolitan Statistical Area.
It secretes juices containing enzymes that are capable of digesting all major types of food -- carbohydrates, fats and proteins. The pancreas is the first organ to begin digesting fats. It secretes pancreatic lipase, esterase and phospholipase, which break down chemically complex fats into simple, easy-to-absorb fats. Similarly, trypsin and carboxypolypeptidase break down proteins, and pancreatic amylase breaks down carbohydrates.
First,an early study reported that peritoneal macrophages secrete a pho-spolipase A2 activity in response to zymosan characterized by anacidic pH optimum (1). Second, recent studies on the mannose-6-phosphate plasma and urine glycoproteomes reported that LPLA 2 is recovered in both types of biological ï¬uids (18, 19).