User talk:Swalk22/sandbox

Your references look good. The current article needs more mechanisms listed and explained so I think this is a good starting direction. Do arrestins play a role in other desensitization mechanisms or just the adrenergic mechanism listed?Gingerscotch (talk) 15:48, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh, to answer your question (which I forgot about), arrestins do play a role in other mechanisms. I was specifically reading into receptor endocytosis, but arrestin binding usually follow after the channel phosphorylation which then affects everything else. Sadly, this is not the case 100% of the time which complicates the issue.Swalk22 (talk) 18:52, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Also, do you think I should talk about ways to block each mechanism? e.g. heparin inhibits receptor phosphorylation and hypertonic sucrose inhibits endocytosis.Swalk22 (talk) 22:06, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Also (for Gingerscotch), I ended up uploading what I wrote to the wiki article itself so you can see most of the final product. There is another person who has monitored the page and edited what I wrote a lot as well.Swalk22 (talk) 00:22, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry for not responding sooner. It looks good. The only thing that was initially not entirely clear for me was the connection between endocytosis and desensitization but as I read on, the removal of receptors from the cell membrane made more sense. Gingerscotch (talk) 05:53, 5 December 2017 (UTC)