New research by Sumeda Nandadasa, Ph.D., reveals how a key protein associated with Meckel-Gruber syndrome, nephronophthisis, ...

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 ...

Our lungs are fairly susceptible to diseases. Unlike most other organs, the lungs are in direct contact with the outside world. When we breathe in, our lungs can also take in things besides the ...

After a few months, the cilia in your lungs start working efficiently again. Cilia are little hairs that sweep out toxins and foreign particles. Quitting also improves the function of alveolar ...

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.

Smoking destroys the cilia, tiny hairs in the lungs that filter out dirt and mucus, leading to chronic "smoker's cough. Credit : Pixabay. Other Tobacco Products .

The trachea (also called the windpipe) is the large tube that brings air from the nasal passages, throat, and larynx (the upper respiratory tract) to the two large airways that branch off into each ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first image of the structures that power human cilia – the tiny, hairlike projections that line our airways – has been produced by a team involving UCL researchers and could lead to much ...

Mechanical manipulation of cilia was critical to the study “Mechanical manipulation of immotile LRO cilia activated intraciliary calcium transients that required the cation channel Polycystin-2.