Genetics and pulmonary medicine bullet 6: Immotile cilia syndrome: past, present, and prospects for the future
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- 1 October 1998
- Vol. 53 (10) , 894-897
- https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.53.10.894
Abstract
Cilia from the lung, nose, or elsewhere have a structure that is highly conservative and, moreover, resembles that of the sperm flagellum. The central part of the sperm tail, its axoneme, thus has the same well known 9 + 2 pattern as has a cilium, although it is about 50 μm long whereas the human cilium is only about 6 μm in length (fig1).Keywords
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