Sensitivity of smell cilia depends on location, length in nasal cavity. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 09 / 150910131805.htm.

Cilia are important for regulating cellular processes, but because of their small size and number, ... and the location of cilia near synapses, where signaling between neurons occurs. ...

Zooming into cilia sheds light into blinding diseases Date: November 5, 2019 Source: Baylor College of Medicine Summary: A new study reveals an unprecedented close-up view of cilia linked to ...

To date, about 30 disorders have been traced to mutations that affect the function of our cilia and flagella. With the exception of polycystic kidney disease, these ciliopathies are rare ...

Artificial cilia exhibit spontaneous beating. Cilia, tiny hair-like structures that perform feats such as clearing microscopic debris from the lungs and determining the correct location of organs ...

More information: Yu Xun et al, GPR45 modulates Gα s at primary cilia of the paraventricular hypothalamus to control food intake, Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adp3989 Provided by UT ...

Primary cilia are important sensory organelles that play a role in cell signaling and development. “Sometimes people think of [primary cilium] as an antenna because they are coated in receptors and ...

A light micrograph of a section through the thorax of a mouse embryo, which shows left–right asymmetry. RIKEN researchers have discovered how cilia detect fluid flow, which eventually leads to ...

Primary cilia play important roles in development and physiology, ... The team focused on primary cilia located in a brain structure called the dentate gyrus (DG), ...

We also show that primary cilia in osteochondromas are found randomly located on the cell surface. Strikingly, the growth plate-like polarity was retained in sub-populations of osteochondroma ...

Cilia on OSNs of the nasal cavity underside had no significant length gradient, as opposed to the marked location-dependent length difference seen in the upper nasal cavity.