However, many questions about primary cilia still remain unanswered. What is their evolutionary origin? Are they the primitive form of cilia, or did they arise from motile cilia? What are the ...

1. How cilia talk» Primary (non-motile) cilia use membrane proteins in their role as a coordinator of the cell’s signaling pathways. New findings show how a cilium retains those membrane proteins—a ...

The team’s close examination of the organelles revealed they are a hybrid of sorts between primary and motile cilia with molecular and structural aspects of both, upending the longstanding binary ...

There is a high degree of ciliary specialization, ranging from motile cilia of the respiratory epithelium to primary ...

Motile cilia have a beating motion and serve to move fluids, whereas non-motile, or primary, cilia receive signals from other cells or fluids. Motile cilia unify axonemal orientation (AO ...

Further, we documented that in each of the five astrocytoma/glioblastoma cell lines studied (U-87 MG, T98G, U-251 MG, U-373 MG, U-138 MG), fully formed primary cilia ...

B.S. – Biology. University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA. Research in my lab focuses on better understanding how motile cilia structure affects its function. Motile cilia are tiny, hair-like, ...