“Washed Liver” Experience

Students in the SVT specialty were able to reproduce the famous “washed liver” experiment, carried out by Claude Bernard in 1855. The aim of this experiment is to demonstrate the production of glucose (sugar) by the liver from a storage molecule, glycogen.

This experiment allowed our students to draw the following conclusion: our liver can store large quantities of glucose when we eat and gradually redistributing it to our organs throughout the rest of the day. It is thanks to this that our cells can function continuously even when our stomach is empty. However, we must avoid consuming too much sugar so as not to saturate our liver.