There are few scientific methods more elegantly simple than "just sprinkle it on top." Researchers at Tohoku University and ...

Cellular communication is a critical process that relies on exocytosis, during which cells release stored chemical messengers contained within intracellular nanoscale vesicles (50–500 nm in diameter).

Live imaging at single-vesicle resolution reveals rabphilin-3A as the first identified negative regulator of neuropeptide release in mammalian neurons.

Endocytosis and exocytosis are the processes by which cells move materials into or out of the cell that are too large to directly pass through the lipid bilayer of the cell membrane. In this article, ...

Vesicle age regulates exocytosis Younger vesicles are preferentially selected to release their contents.

Synopsis Upon exocytosis triggering, synaptic vesicles at the active zone gain transient tethers, possibly corresponding to super‐priming. In the second phase, the number of inter‐vesicular ...

Aggregates of the protein alpha-synuclein spread in the brains of people with Parkinson's disease through a cellular waste-ejection process, suggests a new study.

Exocytosis and endocytosis are tightly coupled. In addition to initiating exocytosis, Ca 2+ plays critical roles in exocytosis–endocytosis coupling in neurons and nonneuronal cells. Both positive and ...

This active form of transport includes stages of pinocytosis and phagocytosis. Endocytosis has an opposing process, known as exocytosis, where molecules are actively exported out of the cell.