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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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This is a three-dimensional reconstruction of a synapse in the mouse brain. Readily releasable fusionable synaptic vesicles (blue, around 45 millionths of a millimeter in diameter) are docked at the cell membrane.

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MPI of Experimental Medicine /Benjamin H. Cooper

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