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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various sacs, composed of synaptic vesicles and mitochondria, that break away from axon terminals at a synapse after brain tissue has been homogenized under controlled conditions.
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- noun A structure containing
vesicles andmitochondria of asynapse that is obtained whenbrain tissue ishomogenized
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RAG protein stoichiometry and arrangement of DNA within the synaptosome, remains poorly understood.
Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue Shlyakhtenko, L. S., Gilmore, J., Kriatchko, A. N. 2009
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