However, the centriole, the structure from which the cilium grows ... Ott et al, Permanent deconstruction of intracellular primary cilia in differentiating granule cell neurons, Journal of ...

In her lab at Washington University in St. Louis, endocrinologist Jing Hughes studies a peculiar structure that sticks out of the surfaces of human pancreatic islet cells: the primary cilium. The ...

Whereas primary cilia have relatively little additional structure, motile cilia have both a central doublet of microtubules as well as inner and outer dynein arms and radial spokes, which are all ...

In healthy cells, primary cilia are essential for growth and repair ... "When we started studying this structure, we expected cancer cells not to have cilia, because the presence of cilia had ...