The overall objective of this study is to investigate whether hypoglycaemia (the most potent stimulus of pancreatic glucagon secretion) affects the secretion of gut-derived glucagon in totally pancreatectomized patients.
The investigators want to assess the plasma glucagon response to insulin-induced hypoglycaemia in totally pancreatectomised patients and at the same time evaluate whether hypoglycaemia affects a range of other products from endocrine cells in the gastrointestinal tract including ghrelin, gastrin, cholecystokinin (CCK), glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP), GLP-1, glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2), oxyntomodulin and peptide YY (PYY). Furthermore the investigators will evaluate how hypoglycaemia in these patients affects other counter-regulatory mechanisms including plasma responses of the hormones adrenaline, noradrenaline, growth hormone and cortisol as well as the rate of gastric emptying rate (which under normal circumstances accelerates during hypoglycaemia) during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
24
50 grams OGTT
insulin-induced hypoglycaemic clamp followed by an 50 grams OGTT
Center for Clinical Metabolic Research
Hellerup, Capital Region, Denmark
p-glucagon
Plasma glucagon excursions measured as incremental area under the curve (iAUC)
Time frame: -30, -15, 0, 15, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 105, 120, 135, 150, 165, 180, 210, 240 minutes
p-glucose
plasma glucose excursions measured as incremental area under the curve (iAUC)
Time frame: -30, -15, 0, 15, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 105, 120, 135, 150, 165, 180, 210, 240 minutes
GIP, GLP-1, GLP-2, GIP, oxyntomodulin, ghrelin, peptide YY, gastrin
excursions in Gut hormones measured as incremental area under the curve (iAUC)
Time frame: -30, -15, 0, 15, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 105, 120, 135, 150, 165, 180, 210, 240 minutes
catecholamines
p-adrenaline and p-noradrenaline, excursions measured as incremental area under the curve (iAUC)
Time frame: -30, -15, 0, 15, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 minutes
cortisol
p-cortisol excursions measured as incremental area under the curve (iAUC)
Time frame: -30, -15, 0, 15, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 minutes
growth hormone
p-growth hormone excursions measured as incremental area under the curve (iAUC)
Time frame: -30, -15, 0, 15, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 minutes
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