Talk:Syncytium

Usefulness
no, it is useful

yes, i agree. it's worthwhile keeping it in the wikipedia database. ---Roy Kwok

It'll be great if it can be further modified (correction of some grammar mistakes,perhaps)--Dominant 08

i'm working on the slime moulds wikis and wonder if we could broaden this:
There are plenty of other kinds of organisms that have syncytia! like the slime moulds (bad wiki at the moment) or myxomycota (another bad wiki), not to mention zygomycota and even other fungi are ALMOST sycytial. There are probably others.

should we incorporate some of this info? then i can link the term syncytial to this wiki from the slime mould page.Wikiskimmer 02:15, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Parasitic
Some plant-parasitic nematodes break down cell walls to create large syncytial cells to feed from.  98.216.110.149 (talk) 00:20, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Viral infection
Currently the 'Formation' section lists only two ways for forming syncytium: (1) syncytial blastoderm, and (2) a structure of fungi and algae. What about syncytia formation as a cytopathic effect of damage from a viral infection? --98.70.58.40 (talk) 18:25, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


 * It's probably not mentioned because no-one's thought to mention it; many cell biology articles are incomplete. You're welcome to contribute, especially if you can cite a source. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 12:48, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

es:WP
I'm working in the es:WP version of this article, and I had to rewrite or complement several parts 'cause were wrong or missing. Lack of sources didn't help, neither. Maybe someone with knowledge can traslate it to improve this one. The other version is ready to be good. Thanks. --Andreateletrabajo (talk) 15:40, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Fungi, trematodes, and cardiac muscle.
Multinucleated fungal cells are coenocytic, not a syncytium. They result from multiple mitosis without cytokinesis. The first sentence of this article gives the proper definition.

The trematodes integument is a syncitium. It would be nice if a section was added.

The section on cardiac muscle is confusing. It is a "functional syncytium" (as is smooth muscle), not a true syncytium. I would like to move it out of its current place and start a new heading for functional syncytium.

I am not going to make any changes at the moment, but if there are comments or I am incorrect, please let me know. 207.191.186.2 (talk) 18:05, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Pronunciation
I would like to point out that the shown pronunciation of the word 'Syncytium' as /sɪnˈsaɪtiəm/ does not square with the one on Merriam Webster, which has /sin-ˈsi-sh(ē-)əm/ So what is it? Amphioxys (talk) 06:32, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Noting that this has been changed as per your comment.--Iztwoz (talk) 14:33, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Other coronaviruses
I'm not a biologist, but it looks like these are also created by infection of other coronavirus strains. Would be good to mention if true:



"showed larger syncytia at 18 h after infection with MERS-CoV than after infection with other coronaviruses … TMPRSS2 enhances virus replication and syncytium formation during infection by SARS-CoV, HCoV-NL63, and the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus ... SARS-CoV infection in particular leads to syncytium formation in TMPRSS2-expressing cells." — Omegatron (talk) 16:18, 26 March 2021 (UTC)