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Department of Teratology

Head: Assoc. Prof. Miroslav Peterka, MD, DSc
E-mail: peterkaatbiomed [dot] cas [dot] cz
Phone: +420 241 062 604

 

Laboratory of Embryogenesis

Assoc. Prof. Miroslav Peterka, MD, DSc | Head of Laboratory
E-mail: peterkaatbiomed [dot] cas [dot] cz
Phone: +420 241 062 604
 
Miroslav Peterka, MD, DSc | Research Scientist
Zbyněk Likovský, PhD | Research Scientist
Petra Herlová, MSc | PhD Student
Natalie Hrozinková, MSc | PhD Student
Bronislava Rokytová | Technician
Ivana Koppová | Technician
 

Laboratory of Odontogenesis

Renata Peterková, MD, PhD | Head of Laboratory
E-mail: repeteatbiomed [dot] cas [dot] cz
Phone: +420 241 062 232
 
Renata Peterková, MD, PhD | Research Scientist
Maria Hovořáková, PhD | Research Scientist
Svatava Churavá, MSc | PhD Student
Jan Procházka, MSc | PhD Student
Michaela Rothová, MSc | PhD Student
Zdenka Lisá | Technician
Lucie Smrčková | Undergraduate Student
 

 

Research topics

The Department of Teratology focuses on experimental and clinical teratology with the aim of contributing to our knowledge of normal and pathological development, the ethiopathogenesis of developmental anomalies, and possibilities for their prevention. Only a small portion of inborn defects in man can be explained either by prenatal exposure to a harmful external factor (15 % of cases) or by genetic reasons (20 % of cases). Most developmental defects (65 %) are thought to result from prenatal exposure to the combined effect of several sub-threshold doses of external factors that act either simultaneously or sequentially; a genetic predisposition is presumed in some of these cases. In the Department, the causes and mechanisms that are responsible for the origin of developmental defects induced by environmental and/or genetic factors are investigated. In these studies, two experimental models are used (developing chick embryo and developing mouse dentition), as well as a clinical/epidemiological approach. The origin of external malformations, especially of orofacial clefts, is a pivotal research topic of the Laboratory of Embryogenesis (M. Peterka). The Laboratory of Odontogenesis (R. Peterkova) focuses on tooth development under normal, pathological, and experimental conditions.
 
 
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