vacuole

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The plant's garbage collectors collect waste from cells and transport it to a kind of recycling station in the plant called a vacuole.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

The pathogen inside this vacuole then breaks free by utilizing its T6SS to disrupt the surrounding cell membrane.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2024

Increasing the acidity inside the vacuole may decrease it outside the vacuole, causing enzymes there to work faster and wear out sooner, which may also help explain the higher death rate among these altered cells.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 18, 2023

Food captured in the oral groove enters a food vacuole, where it combines with digestive enzymes.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The number of the vacuole containing cells is 15-20% of the colourless blood corpuscles.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.