Sentences with phrase «as cilia»

Indeed, this is how the flapping structures known as cilia thrust a cell forward: they flex.

Neurologist Kazunobu Sawamoto at Keio University in Japan and an international team of his colleagues used fluorescent dye and India ink to trace the flow of spinal fluid in mice and found that it followed the whiplike waving of hairlike projections known as cilia from cells lining the route.

A lot of the fiber that they tout in these breads is actually added soluble fiber, such as cilium and things like that.

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Cilia participated in the Global Opportunity Panel in Oslo on 5th June 2015 and works as advisor on climate change and sustainability services for KPMG Norway.

In a hatbox's tied and knotted fringe, fray and cilia of thread, bistre - washed in sepia, under the bed, the dead lay color - blind in shades of gray: each cordoned heart, veined - red, darkened as on alchemists» hands the nitrate silvered.

After 24 days the cells had developed surface proteins that identified them as specific types of lung cell, including alveolar cells, which allow the exchange of gases, and cilia, which expel bacteria and dirt (Respiratory Research, DOI: 10.1186 / 1465-9921-10-105).

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.

In addition, he cautions that cilia - driven flow may not be a universal first step, as some evidence suggests that left - right differences in some animals begin before the formation of the node and cilia.

In the October 24, 2017 issue of Science Signaling, they showed that primary cilia act as a focal point to transmit growth signals.

Ciliopathies are caused by defects in cilia, finger - like projections from cells that act as microscopic «antenna» to detect and respond to chemical changes or fluid flow outside the cell.

A University of Iowa graduate student discovered that lung cilia respond only to bitter flavors, such as nicotine.

As the sub approaches to scrape a sample from them, crew - member Kevin Hand spots something otherworldly: a translucent, spaceship - like creature, its iridescent cilia pulsing gently as it passes through the rover's headlightAs the sub approaches to scrape a sample from them, crew - member Kevin Hand spots something otherworldly: a translucent, spaceship - like creature, its iridescent cilia pulsing gently as it passes through the rover's headlightas it passes through the rover's headlights.

This likely means that as the air slows down, sand particles fall and get trapped in mucus and cilia that line the section, the scientists report today in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

© Wim van Egmond (Photo from Ciliates, used with permission) As the level of oxygen in the atmosphere rose, however, most surface lifeforms on Earth became oxygen breathing, such as these two single - celled protoctists (Euplotes, left, and Stylonychia) which move with hairlike ciliAs the level of oxygen in the atmosphere rose, however, most surface lifeforms on Earth became oxygen breathing, such as these two single - celled protoctists (Euplotes, left, and Stylonychia) which move with hairlike cilias these two single - celled protoctists (Euplotes, left, and Stylonychia) which move with hairlike cilia.

This positions the cilia within the 200 - nanometer reach of the total internal reflection fluorescence microscope allowing for the imaging of individual proteins as they move inside the cilia.

We also aim at understanding how different cilia are built and we use drosophila as a model system to understand the specialized function of ciliary genes in different ciliated cells and ciliary sub-compartments.

«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.

An underlying respiratory disease such as; asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis modifies these mechanisms by reducing the function of beating cilia and increasing the production of mucus.

In human cells, mebendazole suppressed the formation of the primary cilium, a microtubule - based organelle that functions as a signaling hub for Hh pathway activation.

The team exploited the natural behavior of the organism — which is to attach by its cilia to a smooth surface, such as a microscope glass cover.

An interdisciplinary team from the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering collaborated on the research, which used total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to analyze moving protein particles inside the cilia of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a green alga widely used as a model for cilia analysis.

Here, cilia might serve as a cell's antenna, waiting to catch dopamine messages.

They were studying nerve - cell cilia in worms known as C. elegans.

These mice also didn't recognize objects as well as did those with normal cilia.

Cilia play important roles in nearly every human organ and also are essential for the survival of many parasites, such as trypanosoma brucei that causes African sleeping sickness, giving Dong's work the potential for wide influence.

Since then, Dong has established his small lab as a key player among researchers interested in the assembly of the centriole, a barrel - shaped cellular structure central to the formation of cilia, antenna - like cell surface protrusions essential for cell motility and signal transduction.

In addition, the older of the two centrioles can also function as a basal body seeding the growth of cilia or flagella.

Dong is using structural biology to gain a deeper understanding of the building blocks of cilia, such as the centriole and the flagellar pocket collar seen in some parasites.

The transmitters are primary cilia, relatively rigid, hairlike «tails» that respond to specialized signals from a host of proteins, including a key family of proteins known as Wnts.

Surgery is utilized to correct inherited or acquired conformational abnormalities such as entropion, macroblepharon (excessive eyelid length), ectropion or eyelid agenesis, to remove tumors of the eyelids, or to treat distichiae and ectopic cilia.

Ectopic cilia are not the same as distichia.

The term distichiasis originates from the Greek words di and stichos meaning two and rows, respectively, and as the name implies, the condition is characterized by an additional row of cilia, which erupts on the eyelid margin.

Covered in hair - like structures called «cilia,» protozoa constantly move around your pet's cellular structures to gain as many nutrients as possible in order to reproduce.

Lashes which grow on the inside or outside of the eyelid are known as ectopic cilia.

Protozoa are covered in hair - like structures called «cilia,» and constantly move around your cat's cellular structures to reproduce by feasting on as many nutrients as possible.

Distichiasis is similar to, but not the same as, ectopic cilia, a condition that also occurs in dogs (for more details on this condition, please see the handout «Ectopic Cilia in Dogs&raqcilia, a condition that also occurs in dogs (for more details on this condition, please see the handout «Ectopic Cilia in Dogs&raqCilia in Dogs»).

The gene product's precise role is not currently understood but it is thought to anchor regulatory complexes at the photoreceptor connecting cilium, which acts as a bridge between the inner and outer segments of photoreceptor cells [43] as well as having functions in disk morphogenesis [42] and in the structure of the ciliary axoneme [44].