To aid in assessing the impact of chemicals and drugs on cilia function in the small airway epithelium, the lung cilia beat frequency analysis in vitro assay is the ideal option. Using the ...

Man has been breathing with lungs for a million years. Men have been studying the lungs’s physiology for nearly 5.000 years. But not until Radiologist Alfred Ernest Barclay* took to blowing bismuth ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Elevated sputum inflammation markers were linked to lower lung function in primary ciliary dyskinesia.

A coronavirus infection can mow down the forests of hairlike cilia that coat our airways, destroying a crucial barrier to keeping the virus from lodging deep in the lungs. Normally, those cilia move ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Both percent-predicted FEV 1 and FVC in primary ciliary dyskinesia improved with the addition of idrevloride to ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have figured out how to objectively quantify the beating action of cilia, the tiny, hair-like projections on cells that line nasal ...

MILAN -- Research presented at this year's annual European Respiratory Society congress included early successes in transplanting a patient's own lung cells to ease chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

The first international patient registry has been launched for primary ciliary dyskinesia -- a rare lung disease causing long-term and recurring respiratory infections, with no approved treatments and ...

Kartagener syndrome is a type of primary ciliary dyskinesia or PCD, that may also cause reversed internal organs. This means your organs are on the opposite side of your body from where they should be ...

Carcinoma in the tracheobronchial tree tends to occur in relation to smoking habits 7–10 and in certain areas of the lungs. The studies described in this report indicate that the ciliary mechanism may ...