To aid in assessing the impact of chemicals and drugs on cilia function in the small airway epithelium, the lung cilia beat frequency analysis in vitro assay is the ideal option. Using the ...

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 ...

Respiratory symptoms linked to situs inversus are often related to a condition called primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare ...

Cilia are small hairs which beat to push the mucus back up the trachea so it can be swallowed and destroyed in the stomach. Clean air then enters the two bronchi, one bronchus going to each lung.

Research using Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has demonstrated that ciliary movement is regulated by various cellular signals, including Ca 2+, ATP, and reactive oxygen species. Experiments involving ...

The airways, the network of tubes that pipes air into the lungs, deploy several defenses against bacteria. The liquid that coats the lining of the airways teems with microbe-fighting molecules and ...