A small bladder-like cell or cavity, as:
Used in a Sentence
vesicles
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for vesicles.
Editorial note
It would be much easier to package those into extracellular vesicles (exosomes or microvesicles) than into mitochondrial-like vehicles.
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Definitions4
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Quick take
A small bladder-like cell or cavity, as:
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of vesicles gathered in one view.
(cytology) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
(biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is less than 5 mm in diameter.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for vesicles.
noun
A small bladder-like cell or cavity, as:
noun
(cytology) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
noun
(biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is less than 5 mm in diameter.
noun
(botany) A small sac filled with juice, one of many constituting the pulp of a fruit such as an orange, lemon, or grapefruit.
Example sentences
It would be much easier to package those into extracellular vesicles (exosomes or microvesicles) than into mitochondrial-like vehicles.
If they freeze the vesicles that deliver transmitters and make them analyzable, you've got all the information you need.
It also stimulates the release of the monoamines from the synaptic vesicles into the intracellular membrane.
They are systematically encysted into vesicles and surrounded by giant masses of inert cytoplasm and various organelles that depend on them completely.
The hypothesis is that by blocking the serotonin transporter you'd avoid dopamine getting reabsorbed into serotonin vesicles, but there is very little evidence that this would work and there are obvious risks.
By disrupting the proton gradient between the lipid bilayer of these vesicles, dopamine is allowed to leak out and released into the synaptic cleft.
One can even see synaptic vesicles with neurotransmitters in them.
What if the fungus accumulated radioactive particles in vesicles?
You could have various kinds of autocatalytic sets of molecules, including RNA, inside and outside lipid vesicles, and some of them might have re-produced better than others.
Axons and even synaptic vesicles are kept intact.
Dopamine is stored inside vesicles inside presynaptic neurons.
> If they freeze the vesicles that deliver transmitters and make them analyzable, you've got all the information you need.
Quote examples
Not only is it a re-uptake inhibitor, but it actually "reverses the polarity" on neuron vesicles, causing them to dump their loads.
Anyway, do you have any data indicating what percentage of circRNA is "free" in the plasma versus inside of other entities like platelets or extracellular vesicles (exosomes)?
Axons transmit electrical signals and that's what Bostrom is taking to be an "op." But they also transmit vesicles of mRNA and proteins directly from the cytoplasm of one neuron into another, which is an "op" of unimaginable complexity compared to a neuron simply firing (or any CPU instruction), and we have no clue what that means for cognition.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use vesicles in a sentence?
It would be much easier to package those into extracellular vesicles (exosomes or microvesicles) than into mitochondrial-like vehicles.
What does vesicles mean?
A small bladder-like cell or cavity, as:
What part of speech is vesicles?
vesicles is commonly used as noun.