In her lab at Washington University in St. Louis, endocrinologist Jing Hughes studies a peculiar structure that sticks out of the surfaces of human pancreatic islet cells: the primary cilium. The ...

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.

To respect the ethics of collection of normal human brain tissue from our patients ... Patient #1: 20 cells with profiles, 2 cells with normal cilia, 0 cells with abnormal cilia.

has developed an artificial cilia system designed to monitor mucus conditions in human airways. This technology aims to improve the detection of infections, airway obstructions, and the severity ...

Our hypothesis was that primary cilia in human GBM cells would be completely absent or show defects in the early stages of ciliogenesis. Our primary objective was to examine primary cilia ...