Smoking can turns your lungs, black, inflated, and inflamed. But quitting can reverse some of this damage, even if you’ve smoked for several years.

COPD-like in vivo conditions can be imitated by treating the lung SAEC model with IL-13 and analyzing the cilia beat frequency to predict drug efficacy clinical translation.

The first image of the structures that power human cilia – the tiny, hairlike projections that line our airways – has been produced by a team involving UCL researchers and could lead to much ...

Schematic of the lung epithelium: The figure shows how cells with cilia (green) work together with mucus-forming cells (yellow, purple) to effectively remove pathogens from the lung.

image: Illustration of human cilia axoneme repeat view more . Credit: Walton et al. ... ears and sinuses and beat rhythmically to keep the lungs clear from mucus and bacteria.

New research from the University of Osaka has uncovered how air pollution impairs the lungs' self-cleaning system by damaging cilia on airway cells. ... View 2 Images 1 / 2.

Damage to the cilia in your lungs can also make it harder for them to clear out things like mucus. Smokers are more likely to get serious lung conditions such as pneumonia.