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This was confirmed by several others including Nauck and his colleagues who used human GIP (as opposed to porcine GIP used earlier) to demonstrate that in mild type-2 diabetes, GLP-1, in contrast to GIP, not only retains much of its effect to enhance insulin secretion, but in addition, lowers glucagon concentrations [3]