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eLife, 2019 Neurons throughout the mammalian brain possess non-motile cilia, organelles with varied functions in sensory physiology and cellular signaling. Yet, the roles of cilia in these neurons are poorly understood. To shed light into their functions, we studied
Catrina M Loucks +13 more
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Dynamics of cilia length in left–right development [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Reduction in the length of motile cilia in the zebrafish left–right organizer (LRO), also known as Kupffer's vesicle, has a large impact on left–right development.
P. Pintado +5 more
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The ductal network in the human testis and epididymis: What belongs to which?
Clinical Anatomy, EarlyView.Abstract The testes and epididymis are traversed by a system of tubules in which sperm cells are generated, matured, nourished, and transported. Among these are the efferent ductules, which connect the rete testis to the duct of the epididymis. In the Terminologia Anatomica (TA), the efferent ductules are assigned to the testicles, while numerous ...
Andreas Gocht +3 more
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The use of biophysical approaches to understand ciliary beating [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Motile cilia are a striking example of functional cellular organelle, conserved across all the eukaryotic species. Motile cilia allow swimming of cells and small organisms and transport of liquids across epithelial tissues. Whilst the molecular structure is now very well understood, the dynamics of cilia is not well established either at the single ...
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Hydrodynamic Instabilities Provide A Generic Route To Spontaneous Biomimetic Oscillations In Chemomechanically Active Filaments [PDF]
Nature Scientific Reports, 3, 1964 (2013), 2012 Non-equilibrium processes which convert chemical energy into mechanical motion enable the motility of organisms. Bundles of inextensible filaments driven by energy transduction of molecular motors form essential components of micron-scale motility engines like cilia and flagella.
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PLoS Genetics, 2023 An essential process during Danio rerio's left-right organizer (Kupffer's Vesicle, KV) formation is the formation of a motile cilium by developing KV cells which extends into the KV lumen. Beating of motile cilia within the KV lumen directs fluid flow to
Abrar A Aljiboury +10 more
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Children, 2023 Esophageal atresia (EA) is a rare birth defect in which respiratory tract disorders are a major cause of morbidity. It remains unclear whether respiratory tract disorders are in part caused by alterations in airway epithelial cell functions such as the ...
Henriette H. M. Dreyer +13 more
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Evolutionary origins of sensation in metazoans: functional evidence for a new sensory organ in sponges [PDF]
, 2014 Background: One of the hallmarks of multicellular organisms is the ability of their cells to trigger responses to the environment in a coordinated manner.
Farrar, Nathan +4 more
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TRiC Is a Structural Component of Mammalian Sperm Axonemes
Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The TRiC chaperonin is responsible for folding ~5%–10% of the proteome in eukaryotic cells. Our recent cryo‐electron microscopy studies of axonemes from diverse mammalian cell types led to the surprising discovery that a fully assembled TRiC chaperonin is a structural component of mammalian sperm flagella, where it is tethered to the radial ...
Alan Brown +3 more
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Motile cilia defects in diseases other than primary ciliary dyskinesia:The contemporary diagnostic and research role for transmission electron microscopy [PDF]
, 2017 Ultrastructural studies have underpinned the cell biological and clinical investigations of the varied roles of motile cilia in health and disease, with a long history since the 1950s.
Afzelius BA +6 more
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