Sentences with phrase «sensory cilia»

Transmembrane protein OSTA - 1 shapes sensory cilia morphology via regulation of intracellular membrane trafficking in C. elegans.

Sensory cilia did not come from random mutations.

Not exact matches

Cells in the airways have mobile cilia which sweep mucus and dirt out of the lungs, but almost every cell in the body has a primary (sensory) cilium.

In the early 2000s, cell biologists linked cyst formation to gene mutations that affect the primary cilia, hair - like projections from cells that seem to act as sensory antennae.

Syntaxin 3 and SNAP - 25 pairing, regulated by omega - 3 docosahexaenoic acid, controls the delivery of rhodopsin for the biogenesis of cilia - derived sensory organelles, the rod outer segments.

«Unicellular models are great tools to address the many fundamental questions which remain unanswered such as controlling the size of cilia and how cells determine the proteins to be placed into these sensory organelles.

Cilia are highly conserved organelles that play various motile and sensory functions in many eukaryotes.

The inner ear consists of sensory structures that are lined with tiny hairs (cilia).