vesicle

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In a healthy brain, synaptic vesicles act as tiny packages that carry chemical messages from one neuron to the next.

From Science Daily

In autophagy, damaged or unnecessary proteins are enclosed in small membrane-bound vesicles and then broken down safely by enzymes, effectively recycling cellular components.

From Science Daily

Eukaryotes also compartmentalize various cell functions into vesicles called organelles and can move molecules from one compartment to another—something prokaryotes can’t.

From Science Magazine

After removing the contents of the cell to leave only the membrane, they break the membrane into thousands of tiny sacs, or vesicles, roughly 100 nanometers wide.

From Scientific American

But few studies had looked into whether resistance exercise might also result in vesicle formation and inter-tissue chatter.

From New York Times