This little spheroid sports thousands of tiny hairs around the outer edge of its body called cilia that propel it at lightning speeds through freshwater scum .
这个小小的球状体的身体外壳上有着上千条细小的发丝,叫做纤毛,推进它以闪电般的速度穿行于淡水泡沫中。
The hope was that the math1 gene would be activated in the infected cells , which would then grow cilia , thus becoming hair cells .
寄希望于math1基因能够在受感染的细胞中存活,产生纤毛,进而成为毛细胞。
Dr raphael wondered , therefore , whether it would be possible to turn it on in adults , and thus generate new cilia .
因此drraphael想知道是否可以给成年个体移植,并由此再生出新的纤毛细胞。
When we breathe in larger particles than those measured by the aqi ( those typically bigger than 10 micrometers in size ) , they 're typically filtered out by cilia or mucus in our nose and throat .
Christopher jacobs , of stanford university , and his colleagues , reporting last week in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences , have identified the sensors as hair-like protrusions called primary cilia .
In humans , deafness is most often caused by damage to inner ear hair cells-so named because they sport hairlike cilia that bend when they encounter vibrations from sound waves-or by damage to the neurons that transmit that information to the brain .
According to the nasa post , health officials say fine particulates can get past the body 's hair-like cilia defenses , penetrate the lungs and blood , and lead to chronic diseases , such as asthma , cardiovascular disease and bronchitis .