It is often stated that most cells in the human body have a primary cilium.
Which ones don't? For which cells is it unknown?
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Sign up to join this communityIt is often stated that most cells in the human body have a primary cilium.
Which ones don't? For which cells is it unknown?
It seems that, by and large, most animal and plant cells have primary cilia. To quote from this open access paper:
".[..] organisms that form cilia have a basal body or centriole-like structure as their microtubule-organizing center, whereas those that do not [e.g., yeast, higher plants] use morphologically distinct structures for organization of their microtubule cytoskeleton."
Other cases where cells lack primary cilia are when they possess motile cilia (e.g., sperm are mono-ciliated, respiratory epithelia are multi-cilliated).