A cilium which may have a variable arrangement of axonemal microtubules and also contains molecular motors.
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Examples for "motile cilium"
Examples for "motile cilium"
1Basal bodies (BBs) nucleate and position motile cilia at the cell cortex.
2To optimize directed hydrodynamic flow, motile cilia are organized and oriented into a polarized array.
3We discovered that motile cilia on airway epithelial cells have HH signaling proteins, including patched and smoothened.
4In several vertebrate embryos, motile cilia generate an asymmetric fluid flow that is necessary for normal LR development.
5Immunohistochemical staining for dynein axonemal heavy chain 5 discriminated multiple motile cilia from primary cilia in human FT.
1Background: The core of the eukaryotic flagellum is the axoneme, a complex motile organelle composed of approximately 200 different polypeptides.
2When the axoneme of a eukaryotic flagellum is bent, mechanical stress generates forces transverse to the outer doublets (t-forces).