For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...

It develops when hair-like fibers called cilia disappear from the bronchial tubes, making it difficult to cough mucus from the lungs. There isn’t a cure for chronic bronchitis. To receive a ...

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.

Bronchial tubes connect your lungs to airways and are lined with little hairs called cilia that move in wave-like patterns, which pushes mucus up your throat. At the base of the bronchial tubes ...

Your body has natural defenses that protect against lung and respiratory health threats. Mucus, specialized immune cells, and ...

The airways, the network of tubes that pipes air into the lungs, deploy several defenses against bacteria. The liquid that coats the lining of the airways teems with microbe-fighting molecules and ...