To aid in assessing the impact of chemicals and drugs on cilia function in the small airway epithelium, the lung cilia beat frequency analysis in vitro assay is the ideal option. Using the ...

With the World Health Organization estimating that over 20 million people died from the coronavirus pandemic, despite official records having reported more than 7 million deaths. As viruses replicate, ...

For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...

Together, these findings provide new insights and raise new questions about how these differences and locations affect cilia function, Ott says. "We know that diseases that involve cilia can have ...

Cilia are small hairs which beat to push the mucus back up the trachea so it can be swallowed and destroyed in the stomach. Clean air then enters the two bronchi, one bronchus going to each lung.