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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

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[edit] This month's winner is RNA interference!

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[edit] This month's MCB Collaboration of the Month article is Peripheral membrane protein!

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[edit] Lipid Signaling

You added some good new material to Lipid signaling but also [1] blanked out a bunch of fair material. Was this by accident? By the way, your edits there are not minor. David.Throop 04:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

• no it was not by accident, but i did not get a chance to finish the edit (is there a way to save a draft?). i'm taking most of the DAG/IP3 stuff out as it is thoroughly covered elsewhere and, personally, i think intercellular signaling molecules with dedicated GPCRs fit the definition of lipid signaling better. do you agree? Roadnottaken 15:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lipd signals and endocannibinoids

When I'm doing a major rework of a page, I create a sandbox. Then I can save every 100 keystrokes or so and not worry about cluttering up the history page of the article.

I restored the material you'd removed. If you think that something is better covered elsewhere, move it to the Talk: page. That gives the author a chance to weigh in. Even if it's better covered elsewhere, you should leave a couple of sentences as a summary, with a See detail at... linkage.

If you are removing more than a few keystrokes of somebody else's work, it is not a Minor Edit. Don't check the 'Minor Edit' box.

I'm still not clear just how the term 'lipid signalling' is used in the field, so I don't have an informed opinion about DAG/IP3.

Great to have an endocannibinoid resource around! Maybe you can explain something to me. In the eicosanoids, the biggest news of the last 20 years is that omega-3 EPA leads to families of eicosanoids that mitigate the activities (particularly the inflammatory activity) of the Arachidonic Acid derived eicosanoids. There's a tremendous amount of interest in the differential effect the AA-derived vs the EPA-derived eicosanoids. This interest extends out into the popular press.

In the endocannibinoids, EPA (and DHA?) form anandimide analogues. Do they modulate anandimide signaling in a way similar to the way the EPA-derivatives modulate the COX and 5-LO pathways? When I eat salmon, am I shaking up my CB1 / CB2 pathways? I've gone hunting for research articles on this and I'm find almost nothing. I'd think that this would be one of the most urgent questions in endocannibinoid research. Am I missing something? David.Throop 20:47, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, btw, thanks for the cool picture for lipid signalling. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by David.Throop (talk • contribs) 20:50, 20 February 2007 (UTC).

N-docosahexaenoyl ethanolamide is present in mouse-brain (at levels similar to anandamide) and i imagine any fatty acids from your diet would eventually work their way in to N-acylethanolamines at some concentration. that being said they are almost certainly less potent agonists of CB receptors than AEA. additionally, the biosynthetic pathways for AEA have not yet been thoroughly worked-out so the REGULATED production of these signaling lipids may turn out to be specific for AA. maybe not. in any event, you need to elevate the concentration of AEA quite a bit (by inhibiting FAAH) before you start seeing overt behavioral effects in mice (altho there are probably subtle phenotypes that we can't see in mice)... anyway my opinion is that all PUFA NAE derivates activate CB receptors at some level and that your diet probably does affect the distribution of PUFAs available for conversion to NAEs, but that the biosynthesis and degradation are probably tightly regulated such that you can't screw-up endocannabinoid signaling by changing your diet. i'll try to find some references supporting this view, but it's pretty unsubstantiated. to really do the experiment you'd have to feed animals high levels of 13C labled PUFAs which are very expensive. Roadnottaken 16:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Visual Signaling

Sounds good – go ahead and create the article. I encourage you to build the article in your sandbox until you've got it up to 'first release' standard. Be bold.

But do make a thorough search first. I've started several articles only to realize later that I'd duplicated something already extant. Trick is to use the Search box on several cominations of likely keywords, and use the 'What links here' on some related articles. David.Throop 05:33, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Myriocin

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[edit] Good job

Good job with the Image:Signal_transduction_v1.png! (Looks much better than my version. Mortsggah 17:22, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks I think I accidentally deleted your version which is unfortunate since I copied yours exactly, only using Illustrator, and it would be nice to be able to reference it Thanks for the original! Roadnottaken 20:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Myelinated_neuron.png listed for deletion

[edit] Barnstars

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For your diligence pointing out the error in GC DNA base pair.svg, and your efficiency in fixing the related pages. — isilanes (talk|contribs) 16:16, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] 65.40.217.147

I blocked him for a day (the usual for a first-time vandal outside of the school year, I think). But next time at least make a point of going through the full cycle of warnings on the associated user talk page. Daniel Case 18:11, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

ok thanks. i'm just starting to learn about vandalism procedures (beyond reverting) and i wonder why a user that's made nothing but disruptive contributions isn't treated more harshly? i.e. it seems like a 24hr blockage isn't a big deal... what's the next step if there's more vandalism in the future?

your sugars are retarded! and fix the glycolipid page!!! thanks!!! :)—Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.131.130.223 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for Myriocin

AbuAmir 11:47, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilinks added to Monoglyceride

Please remember to link to diglyceride instead of diacylglycerol. Sakkura 20:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

since you set up the redirect I can't see why it matters... but OK. Roadnottaken 20:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] WikiProject Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week

WikiProject Pharmacology is currently organizing a new Collaboration of the Week program, designed to bring drug and medication related articles up to featured status. We're currently soliciting nominations and/or voting on nominations for the first WP:RxCOTW, to begin on September 5, 2007. Please stop by the Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week page to participate! Thanks! Dr. Cash 17:54, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week

Aspirin has been selected as this week's Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week! Please help us bring this article up to featured standards during the week. The goal is to nominate this at WP:FAC on September 10, 2007.

Also, please visitWP:RxCOTW to support other articles for the next COTW. Articles that have been nominated thus far include Doxorubicin, Paracetamol (in the lead with 4 support votes so far), Muscle relaxant, Ethanol, and Bufotenin.

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• Bupropion has been promoted to featured status on August 31, 2007.

• The Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology main page has been updated and overhauled, to make it easier to find things, as well as to highlight other goals and announcements for the project.

• Garrondo is asking for individuals to help review Therapies for multiple sclerosis, as he is considering nominating this article for GA status.

• Fvasconcellos notes that discussion is ongoing regarding the current wording of MEDMOS on including dosage information in drug articles. All input is welcome.

Dr. Cash 00:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Pharmacology Update

Here's a brief update in some of the recent developments of WikiProject Pharmacology!

• Aspirin has just completed its two week run as the first Collaboration of the Week! Many thanks to those editors that contributed; the article got a lot of good work accomplished, and in particular, much work was done in fixing up the history section. It's still not quite "done" yet (is a wikipedia article really ever done?), but after two weeks I think it's more important to push onwards with the development of the new collaboration of the week program. I will be fixing up Aspirin in the next few days and possibly nominating it for either GA or FA status.

• Muscle relaxant has been selected as the new Collaboration of the week until October 2, 2007! This article is currently rated as a "stub", so it's got quite a bit of work cut out for collaborators! Admittedly, featured status could be a long way off,... but still attainable! At the least, maybe we could at least get it up to meeting the Good article criteria? Please stop by the article and help improve it.

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• There was an interesting article on ZDNet last week about Hewlett Packard licensing its patented microneedle technology used in common inkjet printers to be used in transdermal patches to deliver a time-controlled release of drugs to patients. This information could be added to articles such as route of administration or drug delivery.

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[edit] Review of edits

Hello. I recently looked at the 6-hydroxydopamine article and found that the chembox you added to the page in July 2007 was likely a cut'n'paste from another article. You did not however change any of the chemical values leading to some very incorrect information within the chembox on the article's page (SMILES, chemical formula, pubchem link, etc). I fixed the values on that article. I have not reviewed any other chemical pages you may have modified in that time frame but if you are aware of any other articles where you pasted a chembox in recent months, you may want to review your edits to determine if there are other pages with incorrect information. Thanks. ju66l3r 17:05, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

wow, sorry about that. thanks for catching it. i'm usually much more careful than that. i don't know what i was smoking that day.... Roadnottaken 18:39, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pepstatin A

Hello, I noticed that the chemdraw image in your Pepstatin A stub was incorrect in the leftmost valine.

Cheers,

Blindy3788 06:03, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

good catch, thank you. sorry for the mistake, it's fixed now. Roadnottaken 15:44, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inositol synthesis

The numbering on your Inositol biosynthesis is backwards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.131.236.80 (talk) 17:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Pharmacology Update

Here are a few updates in the realm of WikiProject Pharmacology:

• The Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week has been changed to Collaboration of the Month, based on current participation levels. It is also more likely that articles collaborated on for one month are more likely to achieve featured quality than articles worked on for only a week or two.

• The current Collaboration of the Month for November is Receptor antagonist. Please take a look at that article and contribute to it if you get a chance. Ideally, the article should adhere to the featured article criteria.

• Therapies for multiple sclerosis is currently a featured article candidate. If you are familiar with the featured article criteria, please visit WP:FAC and review the article.

• Anabolic steroid is the wikiproject's newest Featured Article, having been promoted on October 8, 2007.

• Theobromine was delisted as a Good Article. The Peer review and GA reassessment discussions provide suggestions on improvement. Muscle relaxant was recently reviewed for Good Article status, but not promoted. Please see the full review full review here for details.

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[edit] image trouble

There seems to be a problem with Image:Signal transduction pathways.jpg. When I try to view the image I get this message, "The image “http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Signal_transduction_pathways.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." --JWSchmidt (talk) 20:47, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

yeah I uploaded a fixed version (Image:Signal_transduction_v1.png) that should work fine. I think I couldn't figure out how to delete the broken one so i just left it there but there shouldn't be any references to it, no? Roadnottaken (talk) 23:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC)