For one thing, the inside of the trachea is lined with tiny hairlike filaments called cilia that beat synchronously and help sweep particles out of the lungs. But the biggest challenge in a ...

The trachea is also lined with tiny hair-like structures called cilia. These help push mucus that contains debris or pathogens out of the trachea. A person then either swallows or spits out the mucus.

Caption 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 ...

The first successful direct transplant of a trachea is a medical milestone that could help thousands of people with airways damaged by ventilators and other causes. Sonia Sein, outside her Bronx ...

Mimicking the sensing ability of biological cilia, Dong and his team developed ... conjunction with an airway stent within an artificial trachea and sheep trachea. Sensing signals are transferred ...

The paper, titled "Sensory Artificial Cilia for In Situ Monitoring of Airway ... conjunction with an airway stent within an artificial trachea and sheep trachea. Sensing signals are transferred ...

22 From the trachea and bronchi of human beings (or animals ... When the apparatus is properly made the cilia can be seen through the microscope to be beating furiously and will continue beating ...