Talk:Cell signaling

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What about signaling in plant cells (especilay local signaling)? I propose this article be deleted, and re-directed to signal transduction.

That's probably a good idea. For now, I have put a "merge" tag on the article. I'm not sure there is anything here that isn't in the signal transduction article, but the tag may at least encourage others to take a look before a redirect is created. Edgar181 11:46, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposal 2006

Three cell biology textbooks (see References section) use the terms Cell signaling, Cell communication or Cell-to-cell signaling as titles for chapters about how cells communicate. Wikipedia also has Intercellular communication. I suggest that the "Cell signaling" and "Intercellular communication" articles be merged into Cell signaling. Data in the table below show that "Cell signaling" is used most often in Wikipedia. --JWSchmidt 21:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Four possible article names

possible name	hits in Wikipedia	hits in Entrez database	Google hits	yahoo hits
Cell signaling	166	5,152	5,420,000	1,830,000
Cell communication	43	17,096	1,280,000	497,000
Cell-to-cell signaling	2	214	40,600	19,800
Intercellular communication	28	2,661	334,000	203,000

[edit] Merge proposal Nov 2007

This new proposal is about merging Cell signaling into the Signal transduction article.

• Possibly concur: I have not read the content, hence possibly (sorry, busy elsewhere). Both articles are pretty long, however. The differences is this one contains also hydrophobic ligand signalling which is goes directly to the nucleus. If it is a daughting tax of merging, it should be proposed as article of the month. --Squidonius (talk) 22:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

• oppose. Both articles are in good shape and long enough. Putting them together would create a mega article.-- Mdd (talk) 22:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

wow. Quick answer! MCB portal is allways dead. Some material is duplicated so this merger must be resolved by writing in both how they differ: making one referenced in the text of the other would be idea and trimming the repetitions. A warning: mega articles get split up and are not a problem, see molecular biology, Influenza or DNA microarray: hence this should just be a quasi list of signalling pathways and general considerations. --Squidonius (talk) 23:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

First. I made a new header here to make clear where we are talking about.

It just seems to me (as an outsider) that the two articles can stay separate. Cell signaling is a specific type of Signal transduction!? -- Mdd (talk) 23:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Salwateama2008 (talk) 07:47, 24 April 2008 (UTC) i think cell signaling must merge with the signal transduction because it is the introducction ,to the signal transduction topics thank you