Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A process of cellular secretion or excretion in which substances contained in vesicles are discharged from the cell by fusion of the vesicular membrane with the outer cell membrane.
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- noun The
secretion of substances throughcellular membranes , either toexcrete waste products or as aregulatory function
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Examples
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This process is called exocytosis, and it is triggered by an arriving nerve impulse with some small probability.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness Atmanspacher, Harald 2006
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The Golgi bud fuses with the inner surface of the axon synaptic membrane, and then, in a process known as exocytosis, bursts through on the outside, into the 20-nanometer-wide synaptic gap.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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The Golgi bud fuses with the inner surface of the axon synaptic membrane, and then, in a process known as exocytosis, bursts through on the outside, into the 20-nanometer-wide synaptic gap.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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A model developed by Beck and Eccles applies concrete quantum mechanical features to describe details of the process of exocytosis.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness Atmanspacher, Harald 2006
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The approach by Beck and Eccles is most detailed and concrete with respect to the application of standard quantum mechanics to the process of exocytosis.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness Atmanspacher, Harald 2006
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They were the first Japanese public use of magnetic levitation train technology. eukaryotic cells secrete molecules to the outside of the cell as well as incorporate proteins into their plasma membrane by a process called exocytosis.
WN.com - Articles related to Scientists uncover mysterious workings of cholera bacteria 2010
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Made by Robert Trager This video answers the questions: How do these molecules get to the outside of the cell? and What orientation do trans-membrane proteins have after exocytosis?
WN.com - Articles related to Scientists uncover mysterious workings of cholera bacteria 2010
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Made by Robert Trager This video answers the questions: How do these molecules get to the outside of the cell? and What orientation do trans-membrane proteins have after exocytosis?
WN.com - Articles related to Scientists uncover mysterious workings of cholera bacteria 2010
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Vesicles that bud off from the Golgi can then send proteins out of the cell by exocytosis.
WN.com - Articles related to Scientists uncover mysterious workings of cholera bacteria 2010
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Vesicles that bud off from the Golgi can then send proteins out of the cell by exocytosis.
WN.com - Articles related to Scientists uncover mysterious workings of cholera bacteria 2010
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