Research and science

At the Department of Physiology JFM CU, scientific research is conducted in two main areas: experimental and clinical - physiological. Experimental research focuses in respirology including pulmonary surfactant, and related models of respiratory diseases especially of neonatal age and associated with surfactant inactivation. Clinical - physiological research focuses on cardiovascular system regulation and dysregulation in different age from neonates (term and preterm, hypotrophic and with pathologies) to adolescents (healthy or with type 1 diabetes mellitus, overweight, obesity, psychiatric diseases). Modern methods are used as continuous recording of systemic peripheral pressure (Finapres / Portapres), evaluation of variability of cardiovascular parameters (beat-to-beat RR intervals and blood pressure) using spectral analysis and preferentially nonlinear methods as well as new devices for function diagnostics of vascular endothelium and screening of the vascular system. The Department is a part of the Center for Excellence in Perinatal Research and the Center for Experimental and Clinical Respirology. It cooperates closely with Biomedical Center Martin and other Departments and clinics of JMF CU and University Hospital Martin, and with other national institutions. International cooperation is also being developed with Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, University of Adelaide, Australia, University of Trento and University of Palermo, Italy, Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, Surfactant Research Laboratory, Children's Clinic, University of Lübeck, Germany and others.