Sentences with phrase «cilia using»

Professor Ronald Roepman, of the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, added: «We confirmed that each of the genes on the list were important for cilia using an independent method.

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They used two different groups of resident species consisting of aquatic bacteria, ciliates — protozoans with hair - like projections called cilia — and rotifers, organisms with cilia - laced mouths and retractable feet.

Bioengineers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have shown for the first time that lithium chloride, a common drug used to treat mental health disorders, could offer an effective treatment against osteoarthritis by disrupting the length of the cells» antennae called primary cilia.

The study shows lithium chloride, a drug often used to treat bipolar disorder, can increase the size of primary cilia in several cell types.

They hope to use the cilia to judge time of death since not only does the beating slow gradually but it also seems relatively immune to environmental factors.

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.

© 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 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.

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.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have used a combination of brainpower and computer power to identify a multitude of new genes that control the formation of tiny, hair - like cilia that...

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.

In a report published on September 30 in Nature Genetics, Katsanis and his team used a small transparent fish, zebrafish, to literally watch what happened if they chemically blocked the production of three proteins that are required for primary cilia function during the period when a fish egg develops into a grown up, fully - finned fish.