New research has identified the mechanism by which air pollution damages the lungs’ self-cleaning system, leaving us ...

These are located in the lungs. Your lungs are made up of elastic ... hair-like structures line the lungs and air pathways. These are called cilia. They clean up any dust or dirt that’s found ...

The air then travels through bronchial tubes, which move air in and out of your lungs. All along your airways, mucus and hair-like structures called cilia get rid of dust and dirt that come in ...

The bottom line of the research is that -- now that they have located a human ... PCD patients' cilia do not move normally. Such people suffer chronic ear and lung infections and can require ...

The lungs clean themselves. They do this by producing mucus, which traps unwanted substances. Tiny hairs, known as cilia, then move this mucus up the airways. People remove the mucus by coughing ...

One study even found that e-cigarettes suppress immune cells in your nose. They also destroy the cilia in your lungs. Cilia are tiny, hair-like structures that trap viruses and debris and sweep ...

Your sense of taste doesn't end in your mouth: Cilia lining airways leading to the lungs express taste receptors and alter their undulations in the presence of bitter ...

The microscopic, hair-like structures called cilia act like the engines of cellular biology. They use a coordinated wave motion to propel bacteria, clean out your lungs and even move eggs from the ...

Tiny hairs in the airways, called cilia, prevent dirt and mucus from getting into the lungs. Smoking tobacco can destroy these hairs, allowing a number of these irritants to build up in the lungs.

They say they have shown for the first time that alcohol impairs an important defence barrier to lung infections, and that smoking intensifies this. Rats exposed to alcohol and smoke lost movement of ...