vesicle

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The findings speak to the value of using universal adult donor cells to create these extracellular vesicle therapies, the researchers said, because they don't carry the risk of generating an immune response.

From Science Daily • May 16, 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

Similarly, when they blocked synaptic vesicle production by hair follicle cells, they were no longer able to signal to the sensory nerves.

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2023

Indigestible waste material is ejected from the cell when an exocytic vesicle fuses with the plasma membrane.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The eye is always a closed vesicle, and the internal cornea is extensive.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various