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Meaning of "cilium"

Cilium is a hair-like organelle found on the surface of many cells, used for movement or sensing
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  • A short microscopic hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism) which serve either for propulsion by causing currents in the surrounding fluid or as sensors.
  • One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.
  • Hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of an organ.
  • An eyelash.

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A cilium consists of a bundle of fibers called an axoneme.
The cone body is derived from a cilium.
A single cilium on a bacterium can contain several billion protons.
Choanozoa have been described as possessing a posterior cilium.
In many cell types the centrosome is replaced by a cilium during cellular differentiation.
The inner and outer segments are connected by a cilium.
It is also known that the cilium must be disassembled before mitosis can occur.
Assembling a primary cilium.
The cilium membrane and the basal body microtubules are connected by transition fibers.
Ciliopathies are caused by genetic defects to a part of the cell called the cilium.
The consensus terminology is the use of cilium and flagellum for all purposes.
Ciliary diseases are caused by genetic defects to a part of the cell called the cilium.
Nearly all human cells have at least one cilium that senses physical or chemical cues.
One of the neurons gives rise to two cilia and the second to a single cilium.
These commands will deploy Cilium with its own etcd managed by etcd operator.

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The outer segment is attached to the inner segment with a very small and fragile cilium.
What to transport into the cilium and how much of it?
Ependymal neural CNS stem cells also comprise at least one cilium.
Which then transfers them on the cilium of its rostrum back into our homeland!
This is why we created Cilium.
One cilium does not serve a useful function alone, but in quantity serves a variety of purposes.
These cells are cuboidal, with microvilli and a single cilium on their surface.
An axial view of a cilium Figure 1 shows nine peripheral microtubule doublets.
The cells sense many light, mechanochemical or biological signals thanks to an immobile primary cilium.
However, once the cell starts to divide, the cilium is replaced again by the centrosome.
During embryonic development gastrulation, cells in the ventral node contain a single motile cilium per cell.
Depending on the species, the membrane covering the cilium shows several variations, including evaginating microvilli.
Once all Cilium pods are marked as READY, you start using your cluster.
Exist, as opposed to the utricle and saccule longer called a polar cilium called cinocilio.
Abstract, The primary cilium is a sensory organelle present on the surface of most quiescent cells.
Panel B shows a brain cell ( outlined in green ) with a cilium contianing the MCH receptorin red.
So I wanted to look… and I saw a tear here in the cilium.
On that, cilium is present, bearing hair-shaped structures on its surface cilia.
Mechanisms of polycystin-2 targeting to the primary cilium.
A cilium with a 9 + 2 arrangement of microtubules projects from the receptor-cell process.
These cells are triggered by a contact-sensitive cilium ( cnidocilium ).
A cilium ( Latin for eyelash ; the plural is cilia ) is an organelle found in eukaryotic cells.
The cells are flask-shaped, with long, slender ciliary processes one cilium per cell.
Eyes: Healthy, one extra cilium in the other eye.
In addition, Transportin-1 is implicated in helping protein transport into primary cilium.
Eyes healthy, but one extra cilium (distichiasis).
One of these proteins is dynein, the “ motor ” of the cilium.
Although the primary cilium was discovered in 1898, it was ignored for a century.
Moreover, Sfi1 depletion leads to cilium assembly.
One kinocilium is the longest cilium located on the hair cell next to 40-70 stereocilia.
Lower panel, modification of “ Eukaryotic cilium diagram, ” by Mariana Ruiz Villareal ( public domain ).

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