Talk:Squid giant synapse

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It would be fun to update this site to conform to wiki standards and also to cite all the cool work that has been done. Naturally, the history is viewed differently by everybody. I don't know who started this site or where the content is taken from. I'd be willing though to add a little work to this if the originator is ok with that. Felix Schweizer (felixs@ucla.edu)
 * Hi Felix. Everyone is encouraged to improve Wikipedia's articles if they can. Permission from the article originator is not required (and in this case might be impossible, since the author hasn't edited Wikipedia in 2 years). This particular article is in pretty bad shape, so any additions/improvements would be very valuable. Cheers, mgiganteus1 (talk) 12:59, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Size of the thing is not noted (proportional to the size of the animal that was studied, and the largest similar animal). Should be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.90.215.178 (talk) 06:27, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * From the legend to the illustration at pp. 38-39 of Scientific American issue for October 1982 ("The squid is shown about 1.5 times life size") I would guess that the squid Loligo pealii is roughly 25 cm long (or at least that the studied individual is); and the same illustration legend says that that (studied) squid's giant synapse is ".7 millimeters long, or several hundred times the size of a typical synapse". I am not convinced that dividing the synapse's size by the body size for this particular individual would give a result applicable to other (e.g. younger or older) individuals of the same species. Oh, and BTW that illustration relates to R.R. Llinás's article mentioned in the section which I added below earlier today. — Tonymec (talk) 21:59, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Possible additional reference
In section Electrophysiology, the sentence beginning "The calcium hypothesis" includes a reference "Llinás et al., 1981 [not specific enough to verify]". IIUC, the same information can be found in the article "Calcium in Synaptic Transmission", by Rodolfo R. Llinás, Scientific American, October 1982 (i.e. Volume 247 No.4), pp. 38-47. The references "Katz & Miledi 1967", "Llinás et al. 1981a" and "Llinás et al. 1981b", mentioned here, appear among others in the bibliography for that article at the end of that issue. (BTW I neither am sure of whether this reference is worth adding, nor know how to add it.) — Tonymec (talk) 21:35, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Size of "Giant synapse"
It is disappointing that this article describes a 'giant synapse' but doesn't indicate its size (apart from within the minute text of the figure's caption). It should also compare the size of this 'giant synapse' with that of 'normal' synapses and thus justify the "giant" epithet. - Duncan.france (talk) 22:19, 2 December 2018 (UTC)