Figure 1: Geometrical relation between cilia orientation, planar cell polarity (PCP ... cause disorientation after first impeding ciliary movement 11, arguing that disorientation is a consequence ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to sensing environmental signals. Researchers from ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

We employ both molecular and cell biological techniques to probe these microtubule inner proteins that make up the core of a motile cilium and investigate their contributions to motile cilia movement ...

However, again to the scientists’ surprise, the cilia on pancreatic cells deviated from this expected arrangement and had eight outer microtubule doublets and a central microtubule doublet or singlet.

Prachee Avasthi took a winding path to specializing in studying cilia—the hairlike appendages that enable cells to move about and sense their environments. During her undergraduate days at the ...

The trachea has a number of adaptations: cartilage rings in the walls of the trachea help to keep it open ciliated epithelium and goblet cells to clean ... the lungs. Cilia are small hairs which ...