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Cover: Patch clamp of the membrane vesicles derived from the contractile vacuole complex of Paramecium multimicronucleatum. (A) A cell incised by using a glass needle (n). p, a glass pipette for varying the amount of the external solution. (B) Patch clamp of a vesicle marked by a blue circle. The I-V relationship of this vesicle is shown as a blue line at the center of the figure. e, a patch electrode. (C) A blue- and a red-marked vesicle being fused with each other. (D) Patch clamp with the fused vesicle. The I-V relationship of the fused vesicle is shown as a half blue-half red line. (E) Current traces of a patch clamped whole vesicle. Background is the extruded cytoplasm (see article by K. Sugino, T. Tominaga, R. D. Allen and Y. Naitoh on pp. 3957-3969).

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