Sentences with phrase «on cilia»

Later, it moves to take up residence on cilia of the brain cells that help control mousey appetites.

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.»

Not exact matches

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.

Finger - like protrusions called cilia on the surface of the human mucous membrane, or epithelium, sway back and forth when irritated.

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].

Microtubules even come into play on the outside of cells, forming into cilia and flagella that allow for cell movement.

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.

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.

We then focused in on some of the biochemical processes that are required for a functioning cilium.

Somatostatin receptors located on brain - cell cilia are required for mice to learn to recognise new objects or to recall familiar ones.

A characteristic of ctenophores is that they have the longest cilia and rely more heavily on these ancient organelles than any other animal.

The sponge's cells, its calcium carbonate or glasslike silica spicules, and the mass of collagen that forms its visible body all create a network of tunnels and chambers, with little flailing hairs called cilia on the walls that wave the water through and filter out plankton and waste.

They also combined powerful microscopes with high speed cameras, capturing footage of the tiny hairs, or cilia, on the corals» surface.

«It's rare that you have a situation in which you see cilia on the outside of an animal,» said Prof Stocker.

Additional BTI researchers on the project include co-first authors and postdoctoral researchers Wenbo Chen and Daniel Hasegawa; Cornell graduate students Patricia Valle Pinheiro and Angela Kruse; postdoctoral scientist Yi Zheng; visiting scholar Wenli Liu; bioinformatics analyst Honghe Sun; research specialist Yimin Xu; Professor Georg Jander and Assistant Professor Michelle Cilia.

His lab continues to investigate the molecular causes behind ciliary disorders, with emphasis on the signaling roles of cilia, the mechanisms behind how genes interact to cause rare genetic disorders, and possible treatments for these conditions.

© 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.

Then, some heat and acid resistant archaebacterium (e.g., Thermoplasma) may have merged with free - swimming spirochete - type bacteria, which became flagella or cilia, on a now, free - swimming protist that is easily poisoned by oxygen.

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.

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.

When the scientists looked in the brain of a mouse with this mutation, they found, again, that MC4R was not on the nerve cell cilia where it should go to work.

Still, the new study «opens up the window a little more» on what cilia actually do in the brain, says Nick Berbari.

And these cilia will have different jobs, depending on where their host cells live.

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.

Primary cilia are antennae - like structures found on the surface of nearly all cells in the human body.

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.

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

cilia (singular cilium) Small hairlike features that occur on the surface of some cells and larger tissue structures.

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.

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.

They also possess «cirri,» small cilia - like filaments on their arms, adjacent to their suction cups, that may have a role in feeding.

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.

The arrow points to a site of ectopic cilia on the inside surface of the upper lid of this young Golden Retriever.

Canine distichiasis is characterized by an additional row of lashes in which the adventitious cilia (distichiae) emerge on the free margin of the eyelids through the meibomian gland orifices [10, 19].

On the other hand, if a dog were to inherit only one PCD gene and a normal one from the other parent, then it is possible that half of the cilia function normally and the other half doesnʼt.

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

Ulcers can also occur secondary to «rolling in» of the eyelids (entropion) causing the lashes to rub on the surface of the eye, extra eyelashes (ectopic cilia), or inadequate tear production (dry eye syndrome).

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»).

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.

From seed and spore dispersal, to rapid cell growth of eukaryotic organisms, and the pulsing cilia needed to sustain them, to the slow growth of lichens and moss - life has a remarkable way of establishing itself on the planet; yet, most of these processes go unseen to the human eye.