Hi David, I noticed that you have done a lot of EFA research. I would be interested in anything that you can cite that talks about the factors that limit ALA conversion to DHA. Apparently it is much more of a problem for men.
-- Rjms 11:38, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
I saw your note on the essential fatty acids talk page. I'd be happy to create chemical structure images for you. Just let me know specifically what you'd like and I'll do it. Edgar181 18:37, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your valuable contributions to the EFA topics on Wikipedia! It's often hard to find information on the Web about the details of EFAs that's understandable to a non-chemist. Frankg 16:57, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
You contributed to the
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Hello David, I changed an edit you did in the atherosclerosis page about hyaline. The hyaline in arteriolosclerosis is amorphous proteins, not cartilage. Keep editing! Emmanuelm 20:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
I created a couple of new images for the essential fatty acid and omega-3 fatty acid pages. I hope these images will allow a better understanding of the numbering and naming conventions. Can you please look at them and let me know what you think of them? If you have any suggestions for improvement, please just let me know - it will only take a minute to make any changes you prefer. Thanks. -- Ed ( Edgar181) 18:05, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Well, unfortunately Quackpotwatch will wipe it off. Then again, i might have time next week to decimate it down to something that will put the smile back. -- Espoo 02:10, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
I see you have reverted the rest of changes made by User:LucioP. I reverted some of the changes he made, but left the ones relating to systematic names because the IUPAC preferred name is icosane. See the note I left on his talk page. Please let me know what you think. Thanks. -- Ed ( Edgar181) 14:20, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi David
I tweaked your source, and looked at it more closely. Then I noticed that:
At http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/gtpoc/index.html
The definitions used in this glossary are identical to those in the published document, see P. Müller, Pure Appl. Chem., 66, 1077-1184 (1994) [Copyright IUPAC; reproduced with the permission of IUPAC]. If you use any of these definitions please cite this reference as their source.
and at http://goldbook.iupac.org/src_PAC1994661077.html
Entries from: PAC, 1994, 66, 1077. Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry.
It appears to me that the sources for both are one and the same; it doesn't add any value to cite them twice. What do you think? -- Rifleman 82 20:13, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
This page sure has come a long way in the last year. I was pleased to see the Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject gave it a B grade. What would it take to get it up to A level?
Glad to help with the pictures. I found a bunch of them on Wikipedia commons so figured they would help out with that article. You should take a look and see if you prefer some of the others - I just searched for 'eicosanoid' and got to them. As for the acronym query, that was a suggestion for the main eicosanoid page, but looks like you're already working away to fix that! Great improvements already from what I can see!! Ciar 17:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey David, I noticed your doing the references on Eicosanoid long-hand. Would you like a hand to do the inline references? I'd be happy to help you...or you could check out the wiki page for inline citations? Page is looking great by the way, and you're doing it pretty much by yourself...great work!! Ciar 04:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Wikiproject_Metabolic_Pathways/requested_pictures
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Hi again David. I was wondering, is it pucinic acid or punicic acid? The binomial name of pomegranate is Punica granatum, so "pucinic" sounded a little strange to me. Fvasconcellos 22:07, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
The definition is given in the article Essential fatty acid : "they must be obtained from food as human cells have no biochemical pathways capable of producing them internally."
As far as I understand, this is not the case of arachidonic acid for the adult human since it is stated in Essential fatty acid interactions that "Most AA in the human body derives from dietary linoleic acid".
Following most assumptions, AA is an essential fatty acid for many mammals, the cat for example and perhaps also for infants but it is never considered to be an EFA for adult human. See also the Example section in Essential fatty acid where it is not cited.
Of course the fact that AA is not an EFA for adult human according to the definition does not mean that this acid is not essential for the human body metabolism.
I did not find any convincing information in the obscure Cunnane paper except that AA is probably an EFA for infants. Johner 21:22, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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OK. The problem is that there are two different definitions for EFA which are used by Wiki contributors, the more restrictive one (sometimes referred to as "truly essential" or "really essential") and the one that you cite.
It is confusing for Wiki readers because only one definition (the restrictive one) is clearly given at the head of Essential fatty acid. It would be useful for the coherence of Wikipedia to give the two definitions at that place and explain that both are used in Wiki articles. Perhaps the new (enlarged) definition will subplant the restrictive one in the future but it must be recognized that the restrictive definition is still used by most authors. Johner 11:14, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
That would be nice. Thank you, David, for your patience and efforts on this subject. Johner 18:13, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello DT. Im happy to look at the Eicosanoid article - thanks for asking. At first glance, two things jump out: 1. You have done a tremendous amount of work - kudos! indicating more than casual interest, and 2. Research on eicosanoids, etc. is running quickly - by the time you can achieve a tight, accurate description in encyclopedic form, something profound changes...in this case, the real-world body of knowledge is truly a WIP. I will look more closely as time allows and offer a more considered opinion on the review page. Are you looking to take it to FA? István 05:44, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Re yct me on my talk page: Why, thank you for the compliment. I've started to look at the article and have made some very minor changes. -- Coppertwig 02:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm still working my way through the article. There's a lot of detailed information there! You've done a lot of work. I'm enjoying nitpicking it for little errors and hope my comments are useful in a small way to contribute to continuing improvement of an already impressive article. -- Coppertwig 01:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice to include images of leukotriene molecules in the leukotriene article as has been done for prostaglandins and prostacyclins. Johner 22:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
You're welcome. Thank Jfdwolff—he converted the file, I just got rid of the extra whitespace. If you'd like me to convert Image:EFA to Eicosanoid.JPG to SVG, I'd be happy to (unless you'd like someone else to do it, of course). Fvasconcellos 01:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for all your wonderful contributions to fatty acids and related articles! -- Ed ( Edgar181) 15:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC) |
i left a response on my user talk page. i'm not really sure how these threads are supposed to go... i'm still learning. Roadnottaken 15:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC) also i looked through your user page and wanted to thank you for what you're doing in the Eicosanoid section, its much more-well done than a lot of other lipid pages out there. i work in a lipid lab (i work on endocannabinoids, but others in my lab work on PAF and LPA and others at my institute focus quite heavily on S1P) and i'd be happy to help the general lipid effort if i can... i'm pretty good with chemdraw etc... anyway lemme know if i can be of assistance.
Hi David, I was just poking around and couldn't find a good Wiki page on the visual cycle (involving all the different stages of cis/trans retinol/retinal regeneration etc). Seems like a very high-interest topic with lots of current research and recent developments that would be perfect for Wiki. There are lots of reviews on this topic, i'll dig some up. What do you think? Roadnottaken 00:25, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I added a figure to the interesterification page. lemme know what you think... it feels simplistic to me but maybe it gets the point across. if you have any suggestions i'm happy to hear them. Roadnottaken 01:53, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
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Hi David—it's been a while! I've fixed the image and gone over it, all seems well now. I'd caught another typo in the original, but let these ones slide. Would you like me to delete that duplicate PNG? Best, Fvasconcellos ( t· c) 12:48, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi David, it's me again. I was wondering if you think there could be any use for an imagemap version of Image:Prostanoid synthesis.svg—that is, a version with clickable labels. I've set one up in my Sandbox; feel free to have a look and let me know what you think. Best, Fvasconcellos ( t· c) 16:17, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, I came across your comments on redrawing complex images and copyright, and I wondered if you could help me. I have come across the same issue on the page for the Cerebellum. I am the author of a diagram of the circuit wiring of the cerebellum, but I have redrawn it from an original schematic included in a paper, which I have cited on the drawing. It was removed over copyright concerns (by the author of the diagram that I replaced). Legitimately, my version of the diagram is very similar to the one in the paper, using the same visual style, etc. But given that I have put my own effort into reproducing it, rather than copying it, would seem to be fair use. I wondered if you have gained any insights since your comments on Jan 2007 that might be helpful. Thanks, Slarson ( talk) 23:04, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know that I've added the Rollback feature to your account, which helps in reverting vandalism. I've been giving it to trusted users that I've encountered. -- Ed ( Edgar181) 11:39, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi David, Any reason not to move User:David.Throop/Carnosic acid to Carnosic acid? Looks like a good start to an article, and moving it would give others a better opportunity to improve it. Just curious mainly... -- Ed ( Edgar181) 18:54, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
If you are around, and it's not too late, it would be great if you could comment here. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:14, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
You have been mentioned at Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians. X Ottawahitech ( talk) 14:27, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
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