Look up: exocytosis

1. exocytosis
   Type: Term Pronunciation: ek′sō-sī-to′sis Definitions: 1. The appearance of migrating inflammatory cells in the epidermis. 2. The process whereby secretory granules or droplets are released from a cell; the membrane around the granule fuses with the cell membrane, which rupture...
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2. Exocytosis
   The releasing of neurotransmitter chemicals into the synaptic cleft by passing 'bubbles' of them - synaptic vesicles - out through the pre-synaptic cell membrane.
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3. Exocytosis
   is the release of intracellular vesicles (which contain neurotransmitter) by a process involving the docking and fusion of the vesicular membrane with the membrane of the cell. This is the mode of release of neurotransmitter at chemical synapses
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4. exocytosis
   Release of material from the cell by fusion of a membrane-bounded vesicle with the plasma membrane.
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5. exocytosis
   <cell biology> Release of material from the cell by fusion of a membrane bounded vesicle with the plasma membrane. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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6. exocytosis
   (ek″so-si-to´sis) the discharge from a cell of particles that are too large to diffuse through the wall; the opposite of endocytosis. the aggregation of migrating leukocytes in the epidermis as part of the inflammatory response.
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7. exocytosis
   (from the article `nervous system`) ...cytoplasm and fuse their membranes with the plasma membrane of the terminal. The transmitter molecules are then expelled from the vesicles into ... In exocytosis, material synthesized within the cell that has been packaged into membrane-bound vesicles is exported from the cell following the ... ...
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8. exocytosis
   (ek;so-si-to;sis) The process of cellular secretion in which the secretory products are contained within a membrane-enclosed vesicle. The vesicle fuses with the cell membrane so that the lumen of the vesicle is open to the extracellular environment.
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9. exocytosis
   (ek;so-si-to;sis) The process of cellular secretion in which the secretory products are contained within a membrane-enclosed vesicle. The vesicle fuses with the cell membrane so that the lumen of the vesicle is open to the extracellular environment.
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10. exocytosis
    The process in which a membrane-enclosed vesicle
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