vesicle
Example Sentences
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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
“We’re not calling them vesicles at this point, because it’s important for us to stay open to different possible interpretations.”
From New York Times
If the holes are of a volcanic origin, they could be tiny vessels left over from gases that escaped, called “vesicles.”
From The Verge
On simultaneously binding to both CI-M6PR and the target protein, the resulting complex is engulfed by the cell membrane, which forms a transport vesicle.
From Nature
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