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

Premature infants are at risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD, a type of lung injury associated with increased ...

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 ...

Consider first what a harmful substance, like a bacterium, needs to do before it can even reach our lungs. It must get past the small hairs in our noses that help filter out larger items like dust and ...

When we breathe in, our lungs can also take in things besides the oxygen we need, including ... Colored scanning electron microscope (SEM) ... which are then swept out by tiny hairs called cilia.

Cilia are organelles present on almost every cell within the body. In the respiratory tract, motile cilia line the epithelial surface and beat in a coordinated fashion to clear mucus from the airways.

Smoking can turns your lungs, black, inflated, and inflamed. But quitting can reverse some of this damage, ... After a few months, the cilia in your lungs start working efficiently again.

Now, in a recently published Journal of Cell Biology paper, scientists used a newer electron microscopy technique, called volume electron microscopy (vEM), to examine how primary cilia on developing ...

Kartagener syndrome is a genetic disease that affects the cilia in your lungs. Learn about the causes, symptoms, ... Electron microscopy is considered the best way to diagnose the condition itself.

Cryo-electron microscopy has revolutionized structural biology. Now biologists are turning their electron microscopes from isolated proteins to sections of cells in the hope of defining protein ...

The experimental study of Kogiso et al. (2017) has recently confirmed the expression of PDE1A by immune-electron microscopy methods in the cilia and the cell body of lung airway ciliary cells. Ca 2+ ...

Recent studies indicate that cilia impairment, accompanied by the axonema loss and the basal body misorientation, is a common pathological feature of SARS-CoV-2-infected bronchial epithelial cells.