The cilia in your lungs become active again. As they recover, you might cough more at first. But that’s a sign that the cilia are helping to clear extra mucus out of your lungs.

Cilia are broom-like hairs that line the nasal passages, airways, and lungs, aiding in cleaning them. The cilia will slow ...

Little is understood about how cilia, the tiny hairlike organelles that in humans are often the first lines of defense against pathogens in our lungs and respiratory tracks and even help push ...

Because cilia cannot sweep mucus out of the lungs as quickly as it's being formed, it accumulates in the airways, clogs them up and triggers a cough. A buildup of mucus can also cause more lung ...

These cilia are linked to signaling pathways that regulate their motility, allowing epithelial tissues in airways to sense toxins or noxious compounds and help protect the lungs. Motile cilia ...

That lack of cilia could help the virus invade the lungs and cause severe COVID-19, says Lisa Chakrabarti, a viral immunologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris (SN: 6/11/20).

Researchers Discover Gene Responsible For Cilia, Lungs' Natural Cleaning System. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 19, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2001 / 01 / 010110074643.htm.

Nov. 9, 2022 — Countless tiny hairs (cilia) are found on the outer wall of some cells, for example in our lungs or in our brain. When these micrometer-sized hairs coordinate their movement and ...

New research from the University of Osaka has uncovered how air pollution impairs the lungs' self-cleaning system by damaging cilia on airway cells. The study also identifies a potential treatment ...

Man has been breathing with lungs for a million years. Men have been studying the lungs's physiology for nearly 5.000 years. But not until Radiologist Alfred Ernest Barclay* took to blowing ...

COPD Causes. Long-term exposure to things that irritate your lungs is the most common cause. In the U.S., that’s cigarette, pipe, or other types of tobacco smoke.