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Identification of GIP and GLP-1 as gastrointestinal insulinotropic hormones In 1902, Ernest Bayliss and William Starling identified a substance that is produced in and secreted from the epithelial cells of the duodenum in response to the contact of these cells with acidic chyme [55]

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