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Aims To investigate the effect of exenatide on glucose disposal, insulin secretion, s-cell function, lipolysis, and hormone concentrations in non-diabetic, morbidly obese subjects under physiological conditions. Materials and methods Patients were assigned to exenatide 10 µg twice daily (EXE, n = 15) or control (CT, n = 15) for 3 months. Patients received a meal test/tracer study (MTT) to measure endogenous glucose production (EGP), rate of oral glucose appearance (RaO), insulin secretion rate (ISR), s-cell function, hepatic (HIR) and adipose tissue insulin resistance (AT-IR) and insulin sensitivity (IS). Results Post-treatment the EXE group showed a significant reduction in body weight (p |