Depending on the tissue, they fulfill a plethora of essential tasks, such as the transport of mucus in trachea ... Typically, thousands of cilia are involved in the creation of such a wave and thus ...

The movement of organisms using cilia experience no net forces and hence ... For example, in the mouse trachea, the alignment of basal bodies is independent of the apical cytoskeleton.

"For mice with normal Daple expression, there was consistent movement in one direction ... structural and functional similarities of cilia in the trachea and oviduct.

Rats exposed to alcohol and smoke lost movement of cilia - tiny hairs lining the airways that beat ... and alters the efficiency of their beating so that bacteria entering the trachea have an ...

Rosenfeld likens the movement of cilia to how a washing machine moves around clothes but keeps them separate at the same time. The cilia not being able to function properly can severely damage the ...

More information: Yusheng Wang et al, Sensory artificial cilia for in situ monitoring of airway physiological properties, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...

They’re called anthrobots. A team of scientists created them using human cells from the trachea. Part of the reason why they used those cells is because they are covered with cilia, or tiny, hair-like ...