Talk:Secretory pathway

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There are a number of things I don't like about the phrase, "A secretory pathway is a term used to describe different methods that cells use...".

If a secretory pathway is a kind of metabolic pathway, for which Wikipedia already has an entry, then both articles would benefit from linking the concepts. A secretory pathway, I suspect, is a metabolic pathway which ends in secretion, that is, exocytosis. Moreover, "secretion" (or "expression") ought to appear among the varieties of metabolic pathways.

As for my objections, they are (1) wrongful application of the indefinite article, (2) calling attention to the fact that the term is a term, (3) saying what it is used for rather than what it means, (4) introducing "to describe" as its purpose, (5) confusion of number in using plural "methods" to refer to singular "pathway", (6) trivial injection of "different", and (7) implying that secretory pathways are among the "methods that cells use" to achieve their goals.

Cells don't have free will; like the rest of us, they just do what they're told, and eventually they pop, yet another secretory pathway. It's all rather sad, come to think of it.

D021317c 11:09, 13 December 2005 (UTC)