cilia
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And hundreds of centrioles, intended for eventual construction of cilia at the cell surface, got stuck in the cell body.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered that cells can also use the cell cycle to control how they sprout hair-like projections called cilia.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
To make the cilia, the researchers introduce the magnetic microparticles into a polymer dissolved in a liquid.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
For this work, the researchers created magnetic cilia consisting of a polymer embedded with magnetic microparticles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
His cilia are not cilia at all, but individual spirochetes, and at the base of attachment of each spirochete is an oval organelle, embedded in the myxotricha membrane, which is a bacterium.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Scientists have long known that abnormalities in a structure on kidney cells, or the primary cilium, cause cysts to form in kidneys.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
Depending on its position, a cilium can be more effected by its neighbor than vice versa, especially in a dense carpet of cilia as it frequently occurs in nature.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2023
Once the voltage is reversed, the oxygen is driven out of the platinum—and the cilium returns to its original shape.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2022
They also have a single, nonmotile cilium that responds to the rate of fluid movement in the tubule.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
In the corkscrew form, Spirillum volitans, each end of the body is produced into a minute hair-like process or cilium, and it is by the lashings of these cilia that the minute organism moves about.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
