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endosome
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endosome /en·do·some/ (en´do-sōm)
1. in endocytosis, a vesicle that has lost its coat of clathrin.
2. a nucleolus-like, intranuclear, RNA-containing organelle of certain flagellate protozoa that persists during mitosis.

endosome
intracellular vesicles formed from the cell membrane which are involved in intracellular transport.


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2004b) observed that QD surface coatings such as MUA may be detached under acidic and oxidative conditions in endosomes and released into cytoplasm.
After internalization of bacteria, the endosome ceases to mature and does not accumulate markers of late endosomes or phagolysosomes (27).
Organelles called endosomes then split off from these buds.
 
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