allowing epithelial tissues in airways to sense toxins or noxious compounds and help protect the lungs. Motile cilia on airway epithelial cells Image: SEM by Tom Moninger "This is the first paper that ...

ATS 2025, San Francisco – Premature infants are at risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD, a type of lung injury associated ... the link between BPD and cilia, tiny hairlike structures ...

Cilia inside the lung-chip. Microscope image courtesy of Emulate, Inc. The organ-chip consists of transparent channels lined with thousands of living cells and pumped with liquid containing ...

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.

mucus and cilia in our windpipes to capture and push out particles, and macrophages in the lungs that are hellbent on finding and destroying unknown substances. As such, medicines for infections ...