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Cilia on nerve cells have previously been thought not to play any role at all, with the best guess being they were vestigial-useful in some animals but no longer useful in others (like our tailbones or the muscles that can wiggle our ears).
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In 2003, the two groups published a cell study that located fibrocystin on cilia (Human Molecular Genetics, 2003). Fibrocystin is a protein associated with ARPKD so the discovery linked cilia to kidney cysts.
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discoverysedge.mayo.edu/de09-2-larusso/
discoverysedge.mayo.edu/de09-2-larusso/
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How to Test the Cilia for Normal Functioning; "The treatment of choice for sinus disease is to have the body return the cilia to their normal function, beating 16 times per second," says Dr. Murray Grossan, a Los Angeles-based internist and author of "The Sinus Cure," to be issued by Bantam Books early ... Discovery Channel...
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health.discovery.com/centers/allergyasthma/sinusitis/he...
health.discovery.com/centers/allergyasthma/sinusitis/heal_02.html
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The discovery of defects in respiratory cilia in the immotile cilia syndrome IN 1933 the German physician Kartagener' described the association of ...
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linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022347680808122
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But as she studied the means by which beat direction determines movement, she discovered that the central pair of tubules in the cilia rotates once in each beat cycle. Her discovery was controversial.
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www.wsu.edu/NIS/Universe/cilia.html
www.wsu.edu/NIS/Universe/cilia.html
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Re-discovery of a "missing link" ciliate hectare. ... 2). The dorsal surface of the ciliate bears cilia, placed in three longitudinal kineties and in one dorsomarginal kinety. The dorsal side of the cell also bears two ribs. A further rib runs along the longitudinal axis of the ventral surface of the ciliate (Fig.
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www.limnetica.com/Limnetica/limne20a/Limnetica-vol20(1)...
www.limnetica.com/Limnetica/limne20a/Limnetica-vol20(1)-pag73-79.pdf
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the discovery of cilia on cells where they have not been suspected before, such as fibroblasts (20), chromaffin cells (6, 22), neurons (14, 22), tumor ...
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www.jstor.org/stable/1604077
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Many years later, as a scientist studying a wide variety of related life forms (such as Paramecium, known to every beginning biology student), I remained in awe of those little beating hairs, or cilia, and the manner in which supposedly simple creatures or individual cells in larger animals controlled their beating.
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www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun99/bacilia.html
www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun99/bacilia.html
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The recent discovery that cilia are able to generate the current flow necessary to initiate the signaling cascade for left–right patterning in embryos has made an important impact on developmental biology (22,23). Many recent reviews have covered this topic (24–31). The ventral surface of the embryonal node in...
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