vesicle

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The cell then pulls this vesicle inward, where the coat dissolves and releases the virus.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

In certain cases, the researchers also varied the pH and the ratios of the components to better understand how these factors impacted vesicle formation.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 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

Waste particles are expelled by an exocytic vesicle that fuses at a specific region on the cell membrane, called the anal pore.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The lens of the lateral eye of the vertebrates is derived by an invagination of the ectoderm, which meets and fits in the retinal cup at the end of the optic vesicle.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.