Primary Cilia in Human Cartilage Cells (IMAGE)

Queen Mary University of London

Primary Cilia in Human Cartilage Cells

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The cilia are the thin hair-like structures only a few 100th of a millimeter long and labelled red in these images. The nucleus of each cell is labelled blue. The green shows an intracellular structure at the base of each cilium called the basal body. Image made by Confocal Microscopy.

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Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)

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