Situs inersus totalis occurs in 50% of PCD patients (Kartagener's syndrome in PCD), and there are a few reports of PCD with heterotaxy (situs ambiguus), such as cardioascular anomalies.
Undulipodium (pl. undulipodia) A whiplike organelle that protrudes from a eukaryotic cell and is used chiefly for locomotion (e.g. motile gametes) or feeding (e.g. ciliate protoctists).
Actin and myoglobulin are the compositions building muscles' stretching function. Microtubulin is the basic substance which provides the flagellum and cilium the function of movement.
The chapter 2 focuses on the somatic function of the micronucleus during asexual reproduction and stomatogenesis in ciliated protozoan Pseudokeronopsis monilata.
The large airways are lined mostly by ciliated columnar cells and a handful of goblet cells which get their name from looking like a wine goblet or glass, and secrete mucus.
The mucociliary escalator consists of mucus that traps invaders and tiny hairs called cilia that carry the mucus toward the mouth, where it can be coughed out.
Last year researchers found that hairlike cilia on this special bunch of cells began to beat in unison, pointing toward what will later become the left side.
To make matters worse, though, smoking makes the cilia short and less mobile, making it harder to move mucus up and out of bronchioles towards the back of the throat to get swallowed.
This duct is full of tiny microvilli called stereocilia, which provide a huge surface area to help reabsorb some extra fluid, and help pass along nutrients to feed the idling sperm.
Ependymal cells are also neuroglial cells, and they're cuboidal-to-columnar - so square to rectangular shaped - ciliated cells that line the ventricles and central canal.
The delicate hair-like cilia in the airways and lungs start recovering within weeks, and are restored after 9 months, improving resistance to infection.
The delicate, hair-like structures inside the lungs known as cilia, which help to fight infections, will have recovered from the toll of cigarette smoke.