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Type1diabetesDIAPPNCT03396146

Assay for the Pancreatic Polypeptide: an Help for Clinical Practice Guidelines in Classification of the Diabetes

A study testing 12 ml total blood tubes volume and Fecal sample in people with Type1diabetes, run by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris at 1 site in France.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate global endocrine function within type 1 and type 3c diabetic patients, helping pancreatic polypeptide measurement. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Type1diabetes
What is being tested?
12 ml total blood tubes volume and Fecal sample
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
36 participants
Where
1 siteFrance
Study dates
14 Jun 2018to 18 Dec 2019
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Patients aged 18 years or older
  • Patients with type 1 diabetes with anti-GAD and / or IA2 and / or Znt8 positive antibodies, or characteristic clinical history, with and without exocrine deficiency (*)
  • Patients with chronic alcoholic pancreatitis or cystic fibrosis origin (type 3c diabetes), complicated with diabetes defined by HbA1c> 6.5% or treated with oral anti-diabetic and / or insulin
  • Patients who have given informed and written consent to participate in research
  • Patients affiliated to a social security scheme (*): The exocrine deficiency is defined by an assay of fecal elastase:
  • without deficit of exocrine function = fecal elastase = /> 100 μg / g
  • with deficit of exocrine function = fecal elastase <100 μg / g

Who cannot join

  • Pregnancy
  • Severe renal impairment (eDFG <45 mL / min / 1.73 m²)

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

France1 site
  • Cochin Hospital

    Paris, Paris, 75014

Other trials in France

About this study

The purpose of this study is to evaluate global endocrine function within type 1 and type 3c diabetic patients, helping pancreatic polypeptide measurement.

Read the detailed description

All diabetes are the result of endrocrine deficiency. The endocrine deficiency may be absolute, as in type 1 diabetes, considered as an elective and exclusive attack of pancreatic Beta cell, or it could be relative, as un type 2 diabetes.

More rarely, diabetes fit into a broader context of pancreatic failure, with diffuse involvement of the exocrine and endocrine function, suggesting an impairment of the whole endocrine secretion of the pancreas, affecting the entire islet of Langerhans, such as in type 3c diabetes, whose prototypes are total pancreatectomy, chronic alcoholic pancreatitis, cystic fibrosis.

The diagnostic of type 3c diabetes is not always obvious, with several clinical presentations, without biological specific disease tag. Moreover, it also appears that the common form of diabetes, type 1 and type 2, may be associated with an exocrine function deficit and with a decrease of the pancreatic volume correlated with exocrine function abnormalities, and a decrease of insulin secretion capacity. The consequences of a spread of the disease beyond the Beta cells remain uncertain, but they could be linked, as in type 3c diabetes, with severe form of hypoglycaemia, due to glucagon deficiency, or nutritional deficiency due to the exocrine deficiency.

The pancreatic polypeptide belongs to the neuropeptide Y family, it is produced by the endocrine pancreatic F cells, located in the hook and the head of the pancreas. Food intake stimulates its secretion. The role of the pancreatic polypeptide in human is uncertain.

Investigators propose to study the pancreatic polypeptide in type 1 and type 3c diabetes before and after a mixed meal in order to study the other endocrine functions of the islet of Langerhans, to evaluate the possibility, or not, of a more diffuse pancreatic involvement in type 1 diabetes, considered as an elective pathology of the pancreatic Beta cell.

Conditions
Type1diabetes
Being tested
12 ml total blood tubes volume, Fecal sample
Keywords
Pancreatic polypeptide, Type 1 diabetes, Chronic pancreatitis
Medical subject headings
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Pancreatitis, Chronic

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • 12 ml total blood tubes volumeOther

    12 ml total blood tubes at 0, +60, + 90, + 120 minutes before and after a mixed meal

  • Fecal sampleOther

    Fecal sample at inclusion

Study groups in NCT03396146
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Type1diabetes with exocrine pancreatic function insufficiencyExperimental12 ml total blood tubes volume Fecal sample
Receives: Other: 12 ml total blood tubes volume; Other: Fecal sample
Type1diabetes without exocrine pancreatic function insuficiencExperimental12 ml total blood tubes volume Fecal sample
Receives: Other: 12 ml total blood tubes volume; Other: Fecal sample
Type 3c diabetesActive comparator12 ml total blood tubes volume Fecal sample
Receives: Other: 12 ml total blood tubes volume; Other: Fecal sample

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Measurement of pancreatic polypeptide for calculating the area under the curve

    physiological parameters

    Measured: 1 day

Secondary outcomes (2)
  1. Measurement of C-peptide levels

    physiological parameters

    Measured: 1 day

  2. Measurement of fecal elastase level

    physiological parameters

    Measured: at inclusion

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted10 Jan 2018
  2. Study start14 Jun 2018
  3. Primary completion18 Dec 2019
  4. Study completion18 Dec 2019

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Diagnosis
Allocation
Non-randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
36 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03396146
Sponsor's protocol ID
K160403J
Other IDs
2017-A00612-51
Acronym
DIAPP
Status last verified
Jan 2026
First submitted
17 Nov 2017
Last updated
15 Jan 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Larger E, Philippe MF, Barbot-Trystram L, Radu A, Rotariu M, Nobecourt E, Boitard C. Pancreatic exocrine function in patients with diabetes. Diabet Med. 2012 Aug;29(8):1047-54. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2012.03597.x.

    PubMed 22273174
  • Philippe MF, Benabadji S, Barbot-Trystram L, Vadrot D, Boitard C, Larger E. Pancreatic volume and endocrine and exocrine functions in patients with diabetes. Pancreas. 2011 Apr;40(3):359-63. doi: 10.1097/MPA.0b013e3182072032.

    PubMed 21283038
  • Rickels MR, Bellin M, Toledo FG, Robertson RP, Andersen DK, Chari ST, Brand R, Frulloni L, Anderson MA, Whitcomb DC; PancreasFest Recommendation Conference Participants. Detection, evaluation and treatment of diabetes mellitus in chronic pancreatitis: recommendations from PancreasFest 2012. Pancreatology. 2013 Jul-Aug;13(4):336-42. doi: 10.1016/j.pan.2013.05.002. Epub 2013 May 17.

    PubMed 23890130
  • Khandekar N, Berning BA, Sainsbury A, Lin S. The role of pancreatic polypeptide in the regulation of energy homeostasis. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2015 Dec 15;418 Pt 1:33-41. doi: 10.1016/j.mce.2015.06.028. Epub 2015 Jun 27.

    PubMed 26123585
  • Hennig R, Kekis PB, Friess H, Adrian TE, Buchler MW. Pancreatic polypeptide in pancreatitis. Peptides. 2002 Feb;23(2):331-8. doi: 10.1016/s0196-9781(01)00605-2.

    PubMed 11825647
  • Wang X, Zielinski MC, Misawa R, Wen P, Wang TY, Wang CZ, Witkowski P, Hara M. Quantitative analysis of pancreatic polypeptide cell distribution in the human pancreas. PLoS One. 2013;8(1):e55501. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055501. Epub 2013 Jan 31.

    PubMed 23383206
  • Simonian HP, Kresge KM, Boden GH, Parkman HP. Differential effects of sham feeding and meal ingestion on ghrelin and pancreatic polypeptide levels: evidence for vagal efferent stimulation mediating ghrelin release. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2005 Jun;17(3):348-54. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2004.00634.x.

    PubMed 15916622
  • Veedfald S, Plamboeck A, Hartmann B, Svendsen LB, Vilsboll T, Knop FK, Holst JJ. Pancreatic polypeptide responses to isoglycemic oral and intravenous glucose in humans with and without intact vagal innervation. Peptides. 2015 Sep;71:229-31. doi: 10.1016/j.peptides.2015.07.020. Epub 2015 Jul 26.

    PubMed 26218807
  • Batterham RL, Le Roux CW, Cohen MA, Park AJ, Ellis SM, Patterson M, Frost GS, Ghatei MA, Bloom SR. Pancreatic polypeptide reduces appetite and food intake in humans. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2003 Aug;88(8):3989-92. doi: 10.1210/jc.2003-030630.

    PubMed 12915697
  • Brunicardi FC, Chaiken RL, Ryan AS, Seymour NE, Hoffmann JA, Lebovitz HE, Chance RE, Gingerich RL, Andersen DK, Elahi D. Pancreatic polypeptide administration improves abnormal glucose metabolism in patients with chronic pancreatitis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1996 Oct;81(10):3566-72. doi: 10.1210/jcem.81.10.8855802.

    PubMed 8855802
  • Rabiee A, Galiatsatos P, Salas-Carrillo R, Thompson MJ, Andersen DK, Elahi D. Pancreatic polypeptide administration enhances insulin sensitivity and reduces the insulin requirement of patients on insulin pump therapy. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2011 Nov 1;5(6):1521-8. doi: 10.1177/193229681100500629.

    PubMed 22226275
  • Henquin JC, Rahier J. Pancreatic alpha cell mass in European subjects with type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia. 2011 Jul;54(7):1720-5. doi: 10.1007/s00125-011-2118-4. Epub 2011 Apr 5.

    PubMed 21465328
  • Diedisheim M, Mallone R, Boitard C, Larger E. beta-cell Mass in Nondiabetic Autoantibody-Positive Subjects: An Analysis Based on the Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors Database. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2016 Apr;101(4):1390-7. doi: 10.1210/jc.2015-3756. Epub 2016 Feb 1.

    PubMed 26829442
  • Gerich JE, Langlois M, Noacco C, Karam JH, Forsham PH. Lack of glucagon response to hypoglycemia in diabetes: evidence for an intrinsic pancreatic alpha cell defect. Science. 1973 Oct 12;182(4108):171-3. doi: 10.1126/science.182.4108.171.

    PubMed 4581053
  • Lund A, Bagger JI, Wewer Albrechtsen NJ, Christensen M, Grondahl M, Hartmann B, Mathiesen ER, Hansen CP, Storkholm JH, van Hall G, Rehfeld JF, Hornburg D, Meissner F, Mann M, Larsen S, Holst JJ, Vilsboll T, Knop FK. Evidence of Extrapancreatic Glucagon Secretion in Man. Diabetes. 2016 Mar;65(3):585-97. doi: 10.2337/db15-1541. Epub 2015 Dec 15.

    PubMed 26672094

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing 12 ml total blood tubes volume and Fecal sample in people with Type1diabetes, run by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris at 1 site in France.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 7 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 15 Jan 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in France. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Measurement of pancreatic polypeptide for calculating the area under the curve (time frame: 1 day). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT03396146, which also lists 29 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 15 Jan 2026.

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