Sentences with phrase «cilium at»

A. Microscopic view of the respiratory mucosa consisting of ciliated epithelial cells (i.e. presence of cilia at their apical surface).

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Broken primary cilia — antennas that cells need to receive key developmental messages — left the cormorants with stunted wings, UCLA evolutionary biologist Alejandro Burga suggested May 12 at the Biology of Genomes meeting.

Wei Wang and Zhi Ping Wang at the A * STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, De Yun Wang at the National University of Singapore and co-workers have now developed the first microfluidic device that enables the direct observation of cilia and their beating frequency on a polyester membrane [1].

At even higher formaldehyde concentrations of 3.0 milligrams per cubic meter, however, the researchers observed an unexpected decrease in cilia beating frequency, possibly due to irreversible cell damage caused by the formaldehyde.

Barlow's film was widely circulated at European universities, and in 1978 the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) approached his advisor with an invitation to contribute his expertise on cilia to the David Attenborough series «Life on Earth.»

The green shows an intracellular structure at the base of each cilium called the basal body.

Based on experiments with mice, some scientists had speculated that cilia nestled in a dimple at the top of the embryo called the node might push fluid down the left side of the embryo, carrying a signal that somehow triggers certain genes to activate.

But it turns out that in at least six coral species, the cilia do much more.

Professor Colin A. Johnson, Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds, said: «This research gives us the best list yet of the human genes needed to make cilia.

Since the beating of these cilia slows at a predictable rate, forensic teams should be able to estimate time of death more accurately.

Symbion is a tiny animal about half a millimetre long, shaped like a bulbous tube with a ring of tiny hairs — cilia — at one end.

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.

Monk notes, however, that other studies have shown that the swishing cilia also influence calcium concentrations, and it is possible that a similar effect is at work in developing mice.

The discovery, made at the University of Minnesota, was named paper of the week in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and sheds new light on the microstructure of 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.

Julie Craft is a sixth - year doctoral student at the University of Georgia and is studying the mechanism behind tubulin transport and its assembly into cilia.

This parasite's flagellum is structurally identical to the cilium but with a unique pocket at its base.

In 2014, Anna earned her Ph.D. in Cell & Molecular Biology at Drexel University where she focused on characterizing Sonic Hedgehog signaling pathway and its role in Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) processing, Amyloid - beta clearance, and trafficking to primary cilia.

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, wave to supporters at the presidential palace in Caracas on Sunday after election officials declared his victory.

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].

Some shapes have cilia - like markings rising from them, and at other times they feature a delicate, curved linework that feels almost lace - like.