vesicle
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When the team applied zap-and-freeze to the human tissue samples, they found the same vesicle recycling steps occurring in human neurons.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2025
"This study represents one of the first direct visualizations showing the localization of these two proteins on synaptic vesicle membranes," she explains.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024
The classical explanation of how autophagy works is that the cellular "garbage" to be dealt with is sequestered in a membrane-surrounded vesicle, and ultimately delivered to lysosomes for degradation.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024
The vesicle fuses with a lysosome, and proteins inside the lysosome digest the food particle.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
These two projections, or pouches, ultimately form the optic vesicle.
From Embryology The Beginnings of Life by Gerald R. Leighton
Vocabulary lists containing vesicle
Cell Biology - Middle School
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Cell Biology - High School
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