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Kiss-and-run fusion, a quick way of coupling exocytotic vesicle fusion to vesicle recycling by endocytosis, can allow full discharge of secretory-vesicle contents, such as neurotransmitters, and is more common than classical endocytosis at high calcium concentrations.

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Figure 1: Two models of coupled exocytosis–endocytosis.

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  1. Department of Neurosciences, DIBIT, San Raffaele Institute, Milano, 20132, Italy
    Riccardo Fesce & Jacopo Meldolesi
  2. CNR Centre of Cytopharmacology and the Department of Pharmacology and Bruno Ceccarelli Centre, University of Milano, Milano, 20129, Italy
    Riccardo Fesce & Jacopo Meldolesi

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Fesce, R., Meldolesi, J. Peeping at the vesicle kiss.Nat Cell Biol 1, E3–E4 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/8950

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