Clinical Symptoms and Ciliary Roles
A wide variety of symptoms are potential clinical features of ciliopathy.
- Chemosensation abnormalities, typically via ciliated epithelial cellular dysfunction.
- Defective thermosensation or mechanosensation, often via ciliated epithelial cellular dysfunction.
- Cellular motility dysfunction
- Issues with displacement of extracellular fluid
- Paracrine signal transduction abnormalities
In organisms of normal health, cilia are critical for:
- organism development
- homeostasis
- reproduction
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