At top, primary cilia (colored green and red) protrude from renal epithelial cells grown in culture. In cell biology, as in love, you often don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. For more than a ...

but this requires that all cilia in a tissue orient the same way. Earlier studies indicated that both planar cell polarity (PCP) signalling and cilia-generated fluid flows could influence ciliary ...

Dr. Peter Walentek from the Medical Center – University of Freiburg receives an ERC grant of two million euros for his ...

Dysfunctions of the tiny cell processes (primary cilia) of the pancreatic beta cells could be a cause of type 2 diabetes.

We have the capability to develop and implement protocols to measure cilia beat frequency and toxicity on small airway epithelial cells model, retinal toxicity and disease modelling on retinal ...

They then used a dye to penetrate the mucus and periciliary layers—the latter being the gel engulfing the cilia. They did not dye the epithelial cell walls, which helped mark the epithelium's ...

During this process, nasal cilia beat in a coordinated fashion to transport foreign entities captured in mucus away from the nose. A further barrier to nasal delivery is the existence of tight ...

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 ...