cilium

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The reason for this daytime-induced enhanced healing process appears to be from the relationship the 24-hour cycle has on the length of the primary cilium.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

Depending on its position, a cilium can be more effected by its neighbor than vice versa, especially in a dense carpet of cilia as it frequently occurs in nature.

From Science Daily • Sep. 29, 2023

The primary cilium is an internally dynamic structure, packed with proteins that detect and convey important messages to its cell about the local environment. “The signaling machinery is concentrated in the cilia,” Witman says.

From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2014

They also have a single, nonmotile cilium that responds to the rate of fluid movement in the tubule.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Each of these had a body shaped like a pear, the small end being slightly incurved and produced into a long curved filament, or cilium, of extreme tenuity.

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry