Talk:Chemoreceptor/Archive 1

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Definition

a chemosensor is a cell or group of cells that transduce a chemical signal into an action potential

I don't think this generally correct. in animals it may be true, but what about unicellular organisms like protozoa. i added a more general statement but left the old definition as well in case i'm wrong. i think my definition is more precise though.

SAW Chemosensors

From my POV this topic should have an own article. --89.56.18.243 (talk) 15:50, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I took it out because it's irrelevant to the article and has almost no information written on it other than what the bot added... Shyam (talk) 07:18, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Article name

Chemosensor might be a more accurate term, but it does not change the fact that almost the entire literature on the subject refer to it as chemoreceptors (or at least in animals!) as well as most other pages on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_chemoreceptors an on... Could someone change the name of the article? - Hjalte Andersen —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.83.18.197 (talk) 00:38, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was Done. DMacks (talk) 00:13, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Chemosensor → Chemoreceptor — Above reason is very valid. Literature concurs. Chemosensor should redirect to chemoreceptor, instead of the reverse, which is how it exists at the moment. Shyam (talk) 07:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Survey

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• Support I requested a name change. Looks like there is no opposing thoughts by users anyways. Shyam (talk) 07:38, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
• Comment what about technological chemosensors? Shouldn't after the move is made, "chemosensor" be turned into a dab page or something? 76.66.193.119 (talk) 02:18, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose Chemosensor is used in some of the bilogical literature I'm familiar with; not sure that the change of article name really buys us anything at this point in time. Still, probably reasonable to have a DAB page for Chemoreceptor, and to copyedit this article to elucidate that both terms are used in various literature. N2e (talk) 03:31, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
  • Nobody has suggested here that "chemoreceptor" has more than one meaning, so I have no idea why you're talking about a disambiguation page for that title. Propaniac (talk) 18:17, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support per above opinions that this topic is more commonly known as a "chemoreceptor." Our guidelines generally advise that we use the best title for a topic, and it has not been suggested that the current title is the best, only that it is sometimes used and that moving the article will result in some undefined burden, an argument I do not find particularly convincing. Propaniac (talk) 18:17, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Discussion

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Disambiguation

The term chemosensor has been used by both the biology and chemistry communities for decades, but having a different meaning in each scientific field. The biologists seem to have been more 'web-savvy' than the chemists, and therefore had a presence on Wikipedia earlier. Perhaps because of the now widespread use of chemosensor by chemists, biologists now prefer the term "chemoreceptor" so as to remove the ambiguity between the Biology and the Chemistry usages. Over the past ten years or so, chemists have likewise been using the term "molecular sensor," also in order to avoid ambiguity.

Thus, as of this date the term chemosensor means two different things. The scientists themselves have resolved the ambiguity by re-naming the 'thing' they are referring to. After all this unintentional lack of clarity, what remains is this observation: the term chemosensor is still widely in use, but is no longer standard practice. By providing a Disambiguation page for chemosensor, Wikipedia will provide a service by driving these two scientific communities toward using the now standard practice terms. Biowhizgrad (talk) 23:16, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

The chemoreceptors crucial for breathing are located in the ear, not the brainstem. I have updated the article accordingly.

Dr Daniel Rubens has shown that the most crucial chemoreceptors are located in the vestibular system of the inner ear. He ran a study involving mice and injected gentamicin into their ears. The mice with destroyed vestibular systems failed to respond to CO2 and suffered life threatening breathing dysfunction. The idea that the medulla and carotid bodies are responsible for the breathing reflex is outdated and old science. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.29.87.48 (talk) 08:10, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Corrected the article to correct for outdated information

The study in question was this one https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21130842 which suggests the inner ear vestibular system plays a more significant role in CO2 respiratory drive than all other chemosensing organs including the medulla. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.11.14 (talk) 21:50, 6 October 2019 (UTC)