Primary Cilia: Highly Sophisticated Biological Sensors

The polycystic kidney disease 1 (Pkd1) gene is required for the responses of osteochondroprogenitor cells to midpalatal suture expansion in mice

(2009) Bo Hou et al.   BONE

The Vertebrate Primary Cilium in Development, Homeostasis, and Disease

(2009) Jantje M. Gerdes et al.   CELL

Ciliary Polycystin-2 Is a Mechanosensitive Calcium Channel Involved in Nitric Oxide Signaling Cascades

(2009) Wissam A. AbouAlaiwi et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Mechanistic insights into Bardet-Biedl syndrome, a model ciliopathy

(2009) Norann A. Zaghloul et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Primary Cilia: Cellular Sensors for the Skeleton

(2008) Charles T. Anderson et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

The NIMA-family kinase, Nek1 affects the stability of centrosomes and ciliogenesis

(2008) Mark C White et al.   BMC CELL BIOLOGY

Centrosome overduplication and mitotic instability in PKD2 transgenic lines

(2008) S BURTEY et al.   CELL BIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Novel role for polycystin-1 in modulating cell proliferation through calcium oscillations in kidney cells

(2008) G. Aguiari et al.   CELL PROLIFERATION

Deciphering the Endothelial Shear Stress Sensor

(2008) Robert E. Poelmann et al.   CIRCULATION

Endothelial Cilia Are Fluid Shear Sensors That Regulate Calcium Signaling and Nitric Oxide Production Through Polycystin-1

(2008) Surya M. Nauli et al.   CIRCULATION

Primary cilia sensitize endothelial cells for fluid shear stress

(2008) Beerend P. Hierck et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Cholangiocyte primary cilia in liver health and disease

(2008) Anatoliy I. Masyuk et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

The primary cilium as a gravitational force transducer and a regulator of transcriptional noise

(2008) Stephen J. Moorman et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Ciliary dysfunction in polycystic kidney disease: an emerging model with polarizing potential

(2008) Robert et al.   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Structure and function of mammalian cilia

(2008) Peter Satir et al.   HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY

Loss of polycystin-1 causes centrosome amplification and genomic instability

(2008) Lorenzo Battini et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Acute kidney injury and aberrant planar cell polarity induce cyst formation in mice lacking renal cilia

(2008) Vishal Patel et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Deletion of IFT20 in the mouse kidney causes misorientation of the mitotic spindle and cystic kidney disease

(2008) Julie A. Jonassen et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Loss of Fat4 disrupts PCP signaling and oriented cell division and leads to cystic kidney disease

(2008) Sakura Saburi et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Endothelial primary cilia in areas of disturbed flow are at the base of atherosclerosis

(2007) Kim Van der Heiden et al.   ATHEROSCLEROSIS

The solitary (primary) cilium–A mechanosensory toggle switch in bone and cartilage cells

(2007) J.F. Whitfield   CELLULAR SIGNALLING