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[edit] Please help merging/copyediting central vacuole section

This article needs major resturcturing. Instead of broad topics like Plant/Animal/Protista it should be split up by type of vacuole, not where the type is present. I would do this myself, but I do't know much about the subject and feel it should be left for someone with more information on the topic I merged material from central vacuole which now REDIRECTs here, but it still needs more merging, I suspect that there is some redundant content, somebody who knows vacuoles better than me should do this. --Lexor|Talk 11:11, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

• Why was this information merged? A cental vacuole is a discrete organelle with specific metabolic functions entirely seperate from the general functions of organelles. In my opinion, a complete merge in this case was probably ill-advised - a join clean-up would have been preferable. ClockworkSoul 16:15, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• I think they should stay merged until someone comes up with a more comprehensive article about plant's central vacuole. Tycho 17:42, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • I have no problem with leaving them merged for now - after all, it's already done. At some point we may want to seperate them again, though. ClockworkSoul 03:50, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Did a partial merge of the vacuole functions and marked page for further cleanup by some brave soul, perhaps one that knows the subject better Kendrick7 09:57, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tonoplast

The tonoplast regulates the flow of material between the vacuole and cytosol of the plant cell. I think it should have its own article, especially since symplast and apoplast have their own. --Brazucs 09:16, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Animals cells do not contain vacuoles

In animal cells, the organelles equivalent to vacuoles are the lysosomes. See e.g. Alberts et a. 2002, cited under "References" in the article: [1] At least, the terms "vesicles", "endosomes" and "lysosomes" should be mentioned in the section dealing with animal cells.--Biologos 13:39, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Animal cells can sometimes contain vacuoles... It's just not as prominant as in other kingdoms. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.208.218 (talk) 23:23, 13 October 2007 (UTC)