Talk:Cell signaling/Archive 1

What about signaling in plant cells
What about signaling in plant cells (especilay local signaling)? I propose this article be deleted, and re-directed to signal transduction.
 * That's probably a good idea.  For now, I have put a "merge" tag on the article.  I'm not sure there is anything here that isn't in the signal transduction article, but the tag may at least encourage others to take a look before a redirect is created. Edgar181 11:46, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Merge proposal Nov 2007
This new proposal is about merging Cell signaling into the Signal transduction article.


 * Possibly concur: I have not read the content, hence possibly (sorry, busy elsewhere). Both articles are pretty long, however. The differences is this one contains also hydrophobic ligand signalling which is goes directly to the nucleus. If it is a daughting tax of merging, it should be proposed as article of the month. --Squidonius (talk) 22:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)


 * oppose. Both articles are in good shape and long enough. Putting them together would create a mega article.-- Mdd (talk) 22:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC)


 * wow. Quick answer! MCB portal is allways dead. Some material is duplicated so this merger must be resolved by writing in both how they differ: making one referenced in the text of the other would be idea and trimming the repetitions. A warning: mega articles get split up and are not a problem, see molecular biology, Influenza or DNA microarray: hence this should just be a quasi list of signalling pathways and general considerations. --Squidonius (talk) 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * First. I made a new header here to make clear where we are talking about.
 * It just seems to me (as an outsider) that the two articles can stay separate. Cell signaling is a specific type of Signal transduction!? -- Mdd (talk) 23:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Salwateama2008 (talk) 07:47, 24 April 2008 (UTC) i think cell signaling must merge with the signal transduction because it is the introducction ,to the signal transduction topics thank you
 * I am closing this merge proposal due to lack of activity (10 months and two votes). The two articles are reasonable articles and are not about the same subject. Cell signaling is a broad article about the process, signal transduction is an article about a component/step of the process. Where the former may discuss related issues to the process (stimulation, signal production, research, &c.), the latter would not. --Oldak Quill 17:53, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

c-signaling
The page doesn't discuss c-signaling. We can't list all signaling but c-signaling does seem rather an important one. What do others think?Mccready (talk) 04:04, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Local field potential signaling
The electrical local field potential undergoes neural oscillations which have numerous intercellular information processing (signalling) functions, especially related to neural coding and development (see retinal waves). However, because it is a form of self-organized signalling, i.e., often not from one specific source nor to one specific destination, it is hard to classify. Perhaps this is because it is an electrical form of signalling, and the article is mostly about chemical forms - the main classification article is the Endocrine System. There is one mention of the electrical synapse.

I was also hoping to make a Category:intercellular signaling where all forms could be indicated.

In practice, different research fields may study these two (electrical/chemical) forms. It may be considered as WP:OR to bring them together, but less so in a category. Alternatively, one could add a which is not ideal. Dpleibovitz (talk) 14:34, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 11:08, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Article Evaluation: The introduction was clear and engaging, simple enough for someone to interpret in an intro level biology class. When describing the signaling between cells of one organism and multiple organisms the article was not very descriptive and did not describe the actual signaling between organisms. It provided examples but not a lot of supportive details. The classifications section did provide a lot of nice explanations and details on the different types of classifications. Overall, the article provided relevant and applicable examples, the receptors for cell motility and differentiation lacked proper explanations. It could use more details and examples to better get the point across. The article presented multiple concepts in a way that would be simple enough for an intro level biology student to interpret and understand. This article did appear to show some bias throughout. They focused almost entirely on eukaryotes and hardly touched on prokaryotes. Although, eukaryotes are much more relevant to us, it would still be important to include more on prokaryotes for comparison purposes. Some of the information was very complicated and more difficult to interpret such as the intraspecies and interspecies section did not describe the differences in intraspecies and interspecies, which would have been helpful for intro level biology student to read at the beginning of the section in order to better understand the rest of the section. The citations and links all appeared to work, although there were some sections missing citations especially in the signaling pathways section. The supporting figures and images made the article stronger, making this a very resourceful page overall to learn about cell signaling.Brown855 (talk) 18:52, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Article Evaluation: The introduction involving the concept of cell signaling was very concise and basic enough for any student studying any intro level biology course to comprehend. However, when discussing mechanical and biochemical signals, the article did not specify if all organisms were capable of these types of cell signals. The article primarily focused on eukaryotes. It rarely focused on bacteria and their cell signaling pathways. The notch signaling mechanism could use a citation, as well as redox signaling. Morton36 (talk) 22:22, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Species specificity
One statement from the article claimed, "Active species of oxygen and nitric oxide can also act as cellular messengers. This process is dubbed redox signaling."

What sort of species are capable of under going this process of cell signaling? Furthermore, a citation is probably necessary for this section. Morton36 (talk) 22:52, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

What is 'CheA and CheW' ?
Please, could anyone explain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:810D:AF3F:EC88:516A:E67:44B8:6D37 (talk) 10:45, 7 January 2017 (UTC)