Sentences with phrase «cilia lining»

The pathogens temporarily destroy the protective cilia lining of the trachea, larynx and bronchi.

These pathogens attack the cilia lining of the respiratory tract and cause inflammation of the upper airway.

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The nose is an amazing filter lined with tiny hairs called «cilia», which help to filter, humidify and warm or cool air, therefore protecting your body from particles of foreign matters.

Microtubule bundles line the cilia — tiny, hairlike structures — of a paramecium, shown here both from the side and in cross section.

Once the egg is released from an ovary and enters the Fallopian tube, the hair - like cilia that line this tiny tube sweep the egg toward the uterus.

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.

It affects the cilia — tiny, microscopic moving structures that line the airways, ears and sinuses.

The human airway is lined with two kinds of epithelial cells — those that possess hairlike fringes called cilia and those that don't.

ROWERS Thousands of tiny hairs, or cilia, line a paramecium's outer edge and work like oars to propel it through the water.

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.

Runner up: Danielle Dixon, Mueller / Cilia labs, «Elucidating genetic variation in «Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus» transmission between Asian citrus psyllid isofemale lines»

Tiny hair - like structures on cells lining your airways, called cilia, push the mucus back up to your throat.

When breathing through the nose, the air is warmed and cleaned by both the hair (cilia) that lines the path through which it passes, and the extreme length that pathway follows on its journey from the outside world through the nose to the lungs.

disrupting the ability of the cilia (whip - like cells that line the fallopian tube) to move a fertilized egg toward the uterus in the event that conception does occur;

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

The respiratory system of your pet is lined with a protective layer of cells with fine hairs called cilia and covered in a thin layer of protective mucous.

Ciliary dyskinesis - This is a syndrome which has been reported in the Chinese Shar - Pei in which the cilia (microscopic hair - like projections on the epithelial cells which line the upper airways) are malformed or nonexistent.