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vesicle

[ves-i-kuhl] / ˈvɛs ɪ kəl /


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As the pocket expands, it wraps around the virus and forms a vesicle.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

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

They then used fluorescent dyes to inspect the mixtures and judge if vesicle formation had taken place.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

As has been said, the very first appearance of these organs takes the form of a pair of outgrowths, or processes, which are hollow, from the front part of the anterior vesicle of the brain.

From Embryology The Beginnings of Life by Leighton, Gerald R.




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