As the winter months transition into spring, the lingering dry air can still have a significant impact on one’s voice. This ...

Your sense of taste doesn't end in your mouth: Cilia lining airways leading to the lungs express taste receptors and alter their undulations in the presence of bitter ...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a set of diseases caused by defects in cilia-driven mucus flow ... disorientation after first impeding ciliary movement 11, arguing that disorientation is ...

When a person has black or dark-colored mucus, they may have inhaled potentially ... In addition, smoke can damage the hair-like cilia, which help clear the lungs of phlegm. As a result, a person ...

For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...

The Nicastro lab studies cilia and flagella, the whip-like tails that propel cells through their watery world. Studying flagellates can show how mucus is cleared from the human trachea, for instance, ...

Beyond a dysfunctional ciliary network, the missing structure also leads some cells that should have cilia to instead produce mucus, which could account for the increased airway problems.

Cilia are small hairs which beat to push the mucus back up the trachea so it can ... trachea Bell jar/chest cavity Air tight Unable to move, the ribs can move up and out to increase the volume ...