Cilia Structure and Function in Human Disease

Overview

Journal Curr Opin Endocr Metab Res

Specialty Endocrinology

Date 2024 Jun 5

PMID 38836197

Authors

Gregory J Pazour

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Abstract

Ciliary dysfunction causes a large group of developmental and degenerative human diseases known as ciliopathies. These diseases reflect the critical roles that cilia play in sensing the environment and in force generation for motility. Sensory functions include our senses of vision and olfaction. In addition, primary and motile cilia throughout our body monitor the environment allowing cells to coordinate their biology with the cells around them. This coordination is critical to organ development and maintenance, and ciliary dysfunction causes diverse structural birth defects and degenerative diseases. Defects in motility cause lung disease due to the failure of mucociliary clearance, male infertility due to the failure of sperm motility and the ability of sperm to move through the efferent ducts, and disturbances of the left-right axis due to a failure of nodal cilia to establish proper left-right cues.

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