User:OtherwiseDrummer/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title:Sodium channel
 * Article Evaluation:Options for improvement:
 * The section "Role in action potential" has no citations and is vaguely written. Expanding the section with citations would improve article utility. However, some of the information would be redundant given the existing "Action Potential" Wikipedia page. (Medium)
 * A user in the talk section requested a table of the single channel conductance of various channel subtypes. (Small)
 * Distribution of voltage gated sodium channels (what cells, organs, or brain regions commonly express different subtypes) could be an interesting column to add to the table of sodium channel types. (Small)
 * A user in the talk section requested a section on sodium leak channels. After trolling briefly through the literature, these appear to be noteworthy. Their complete absence from Wikipedia and this page in particular represents a sizeable gap. (Large)


 * Sources:Distribution and function of voltage-gated sodium channels in the nervous system: https://doi.org/10.1080/19336950.2017.138 :Sodium leak channels in neuronal excitability and rhythmic behaviors: https//doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.20 11.12.007:Struc ture of human sodium leak channe l: 

Opt ion 2

 * Article title:Li pid-gated ion channels
 * A rticle Ev alua tion :Options for improvement:
 * Article lacks a section more simply expl aining the biological fun ction of these channels, or common examples of the ir functions. (Large)


 * Sources
 * Ion channels as lipid sensors: from structures to mechanisms
 * https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-020-00693-3