cilium
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The reason for this daytime-induced enhanced healing process appears to be from the relationship the 24-hour cycle has on the length of the primary cilium.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023
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
He points out that Dogic's group created something that looks and acts very much like a cilium or flagellum with its multitude of proteins — but that may, in fact, work very differently.
From Nature • Jan. 4, 2016
The current model is that cilia are attached to one another by “tip links,” structures which link the tips of one cilium to another.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
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
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