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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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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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