The trachea is also lined with tiny hair-like structures called cilia. These help push mucus ... cool the air through evaporation. Various health conditions can affect the trachea.

Healthy lungs carry oxygen from the trachea through the bronchial tubes ... The nicotine in cigarette smoke temporarily paralyzes and kills cilia. That means your airways can’t filter the ...

In fact, her health and quality of life was ... cause inflammation and further damage to the trachea, and because these tubes don't contain cilia it leads to mucus plugging and the patient can ...

The trachea, also called the windpipe ... Microscopic, hair-like cilia move the cleansing mucus up to the pharynx—part of the throat between the mouth and esophagus—from the lower part ...

Here’s how smoking affects your lungs and your overall health. Air from outside the body comes in through a pathway called the trachea ... These are called cilia. They clean up any dust or ...

The HEATR2 protein (red) is located in the body of airway cells lining the trachea, not in the cilia (green) or the nuclei (blue). Finding HEATR2 outside of the cilia was the first clue for Amjad ...

In this article, we discuss the functional and structural differences between a smoker’s lungs and healthy lungs ... lungs sustain damage to the cilia. Cilia are small hairs in the airway ...

More information: Yusheng Wang et al, Sensory artificial cilia for in situ monitoring of airway physiological properties, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...