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What goes out must come in

Sea urchin eggs are an experimentally accessible preparation for studying the links between calcium-dependent exocytosis and endocytosis, which may also apply to synaptic vesicles.

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Figure 1: The experimental system.
Figure 2: Coupling between endocytosis and exocytosis.
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Betz, W., Richards, D. What goes out must come in. Nat Neurosci 3, 636–637 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/76579

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