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Cilia
Ciliary malfunctions due to genetic errors tend to be systemic and life-long
January 20th, 2005
Cilia-related diseases were the focus of a recent report. According to the report from Sweden, "There are at least eight categories of cilia in the human body and malfunctioning of any one or several of them will have different consequences for the patient." B.A. Afzelius of Stockholm University explained, "A genetic error of the respiratory cilia (9 + 2) is the cause of the airways disease named immotile-cilia syndrome (or PCD), whereas defective ependymal cilia (9 + 2) carries an increased risk of hydrocephalus. When the so-called nodal cilia (9 + 0) of the early embryo are malfunctioning, there is a random determination of asymmetry of the heart...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-20)
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