For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...

Moreover, neighboring cells that share a limited fluid ... the correct torque necessary for changes in angle. Cilia and flagella in eukaryotic organisms fulfill a motile function that encourages ...

Primary cilia are structurally and functionally very similar to eukaryotic flagella (motile tails used to propel microorganisms). For many decades it was thought that cilia on human cells were ...

One essential component of each eukaryotic cell is the cytoskeleton. Microtubules, tiny tubes consisting of a protein called tubulin, are part of this skeleton of cells. Cilia and flagella ...

for example the presence of actin filaments inside those cilia. Actin Filaments are found in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells and form part of the cytoskeleton. “Finding filamentous actin in cilia ...

Introduction Primary cilia are eukaryotic organelles found singularly on almost every cell in the body. Primary cilia localise a number of developmental signalling pathways, and for some of these ...

In contrast, eukaryotic cell walls (in fungi ... flagella propel an entire cell forwards whilst cilia brush material across an area. Both are constructed of a cylindrical arrangement of 9 ...

But the coronavirus throws that system out of whack. When it infects respiratory tract cells, the virus appears to clear tracts of cilia, and without the hairlike structures, the cells stop moving ...

Primary cilia are hair-like structures which protrude from almost all mammalian cells. They are thought to be sensory and involved in sampling the cell's environment. New research, published in ...