Talk:Cytolysis

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[edit] Merging

I think we should merge the 2 stub pages, viral lysis and osmotic lysis all into this one page, since both are covered by this page. Besides, the first sentence in the osmotic lysis page says that osmotic lysis is a cytolysis. What are the thoughts to this? AndyZ 01:33, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cytolysis is no just death of cell, or is it?

From the definition, cytolysis is not just the death of a cell, but the death of a cell cause by the the rupture of the membrane or the dillution of its organelles. Therefor a plant cell could die (e.g. by dehydration), but never experience cytolysis. Is this correct? (I'm not trolling here, but if I smash a plant cell with a hammer, could this be considered cytolysis?)

I suggest we change/add this fact in the condensed definition at the start of the article. But before doing so, I would like to hear from you regarding this, especially vis-a-vis viral lysis. --Enigma 02:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)``

• I agree - according to my textbook cytolysis "is the bursting of cells" due to being in a hypotonic environment. So in other words, this article should be located at Lysis, and this page should be a redirect to that page instead, or even better a subpage from the article Lysis, which is the "disintegration or destruction of cells" (according to wiktionary). Viral lysis is not a cytolysis in my view - at first though I had heeded to the advice of other users and the original content on the page. AndyZ 01:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for answering so fast AndyZ (and thank you for the welcome message! :) ) I'm still pretty new here and I'm not as bold as the Wikipedia guidelines promote. I've never merged articles before. A great idea to refer it with or within Lysis. --Enigma 03:10, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• • By the way, you can use more asterisks (*) to indent your bullet farther in for organization, like I did here. I set up a disambiguation page at Lysis (disambiguation), and judging by the relative shortness of this article I can either redirect this article straight to Lysis or create Cytolysis as a subpage of Lysis, of which I prefer the 2nd option. AndyZ 00:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC) I'll work on doing this immediately. AndyZ 00:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)