it has been difficult for scientists to explore cilia in brain cells with traditional techniques, leaving their organization and function unclear. In a series of papers appearing in Current ...

Note that while they may serve as sensory receptor cell specializations, primary cilia can simultaneously support major IFT functions of the cell (Figure 3). The primary cilium has gone from being ...

Over months, she and her collaborators optimized a protocol for peeling away the entire cell membrane to see the cytoskeletal ... that was consistent across all cilia analyzed. Its effect on cilia ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to sensing environmental signals. Researchers from ...

The goblet cells secrete mucin proteins in a matrix composed of water, complex sugars, salts which form the mucus. This matrix is distributed evenly on the surface of the epithelium by the ...

Instead, they were looking at a previously unknown kind of cilia that could not only sense their environment but also respond to it by modulating the function of beta cells. Although, according to ...

Earlier studies indicated that both planar cell polarity (PCP) signalling and cilia-generated fluid flows ... ranging from the disgusting but important function of mucus clearance to the more ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to ...