Browsing by Subject "cilia"
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(2017-05-10)Eukaryotic cilia/flagella are the evolutionary conserved microtubule-based organelles. Projecting away from the cell surface, they perform a variety of sensing, signaling, and motility-based functions. In humans, defective ...
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(2012-12-11)Cilia and flagella are sensory organelles, found in the majority of eukaryotic organisms that play a vital role in the general physiology, health and early development of humans. Intraflagellar transport (IFT) is tasked ...
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(2014-04-17)Vertebrate vision is enabled by light-sensitive photoreceptors arranged in a plane in the retina. This study investigates two aspects of this arrangement: 1) positioning of basal bodies within photoreceptors, and 2) ...
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(2012-11-07)Intraflagellar transport (IFT), the key mechanism for ciliogenesis, involves large protein particles moving bi-directionally along the entire ciliary length. IFT particles contain two large protein complexes, A and B, which ...