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In the present study we were unable to observe cilia in any presumptive ciliate protozoan.
These vibrations then stimulate the cilia, which transmit a nerve impulse to the brain informing the shark of the location of the source.
In patients with a defect of central microtubules, the ultrastructure, and thus the function, of nodal cilia would not be affected.
The Ciliophora are characterized, reasonably enough, by the presence of cilia.
In most species, the head carries a corona of cilia that draws a vortex of water into the mouth, which the rotifer sifts for food.
If the tiny, hair-like cilia in the lungs do not function properly, mucus gets trapped in the bronchi, resulting in bronchiectasis.
The ultrastructure of normal cilia consists of nine outer microtubule pairs and two single central microtubules.
However, unlike cnidarians, ctenophores possess rows of cilia and a unique, complex sensory organ and lack cnidae and metagenesis.
The luminal surface of the epithelial cells contained few irregular cytoplasmic projections, but cilia or microvilli were absent.
The PCD phenotype results from axonemal abnormalities and dysfunction of motile cilia and flagella.
Some single-celled organisms called protists do in fact use cilia on their cell surface to swim through water.
The planulae of most cnidarians attach and lose, at most, a coat of swimming cilia.
Water is constantly pumped into the inhalant aperture, through the gills, and out the exhalant aperture by cilia.
Plankton and organic detritus sticks to mucus on the body surface and is moved by cilia to the mouth.
Ectopic cilia are particularly irritating and likely to cause corneal ulcers.
The immotile cilia lack the motor protein dynein, which is essential for their movement.
Determination of vertebrate left-right body asymmetry requires immotile cilia that sense fluid flow generated by nearby motile cilia.
The epidermis is cellular and does not possess any locomotory cilia.
The Ecdysozoa, all of which molt and lack motile locomotory cilia, include priapulids, kinorhynchs, nematodes, nematomorphs, tardigrades, onychophorans, and arthropods.
That was done by lowering the wafer slowly on to a magnet which repelled the cilia, leaving them permanently upright.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The motile force is imparted to the gonidium by dense rows of waving cilia with which it is completely surrounded.
In some cases amongst the Nudibranchiata and Pteropoda there are one or two long cilia in the middle of the velar area.
It is also called the calcar, or spur, and is furnished with cilia or bristles at its extremity.
Some of the endothelial cells lining the coelom are ciliated, the cilia keeping the corpusculated fluid contents in movement.
Upon the edge of this flap all the way around may occur a row of cilia, or tentacular processes.
Two long arms, covered with vibratile cilia, and capable of being folded or coiled, are attached at the sides of the mouth.
The body of these polyps presents marginal fringes furnished with vibratile cilia, which are swimming organs.
It consists essentially of an exterior shell or solid carapace, clothed in a slight membrane furnished with vibratile cilia.
This pad or cushion is furnished with vibratile cilia, disposed round the young shell.
The membrane is longitudinally striped and covered with long and vibratile cilia.
The cilia exist at the anterior end, and extend down a lateral fissure as in vorticella.
The cilia of the preoral and postoral bands are not clearly differentiated at this stage.
It propagates by minute zoospores, by large quiescent spores, or by large active spores clothed with cilia.
Some of the cilia are used for running or swimming, others for grasping or touching, and so on.
B represents two tentacles, showing the direction in which the cilia vibrate.
The skin is ciliated, and the cilia cause a rotation in the egg.
At about ten inches from one of the knees, the cilia forming that leg had abruptly doubled backward and inward upon their course of growth.
What I like about salt therapy is that it primarily works by activating the cilia in the lungs.
The bands of cilia have the same general form as in bipinnaria.
Hair-like extensions of epithelial cells called cilia then propel the mucus out of our airways and get rid of these dangerous particles.
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