Talk:Cajal body

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Merger Proposal

Support Both this page and Coiled bodies are talking about the same structure.D-rew (talk) 19:09, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support, concur with D-rew. aciel (talk) 19:51, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support, there is definitely no difference between the two. Sojuli (talk) 12:10, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Is the merger from Coiled bodies to Cajal bodies or the other way around?--Chibibrain (talk) 21:34, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Personally I would prefer merging it to Cajal body as it sounds more specific to me, and that's what my cell biology textbook (The Cell, 4/e, G. M. Cooper, R. E. Hausman) refers them to. However a Google search returns somewhat more hits for "coiled body" (is this term used more frequently than the other in fields such as medicine?), so whichever would be fine with me... E-Ping Rau (talk) 13:49, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merged from Coiled bodies to Cajal body. Reason: Scientific community renamed coiled bodies to Cajal bodies after their discoverer Santiago Ramón y Cajal. --Mashin6 (talk) 23:44, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Size - Ref?

2 micrometers is huge, considering a nucleus is usually 5-10 microns in diameter. any source with a microscopic picture proving that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.229.14.205 (talk) 08:25, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Generally accepted is that in somatic cells Cajal bodies are 0.5-1 µm in diameter, but in oocytes (e.g. Xenopus) which have big nuclei, Cajal bodies can be up to 5 µm in diameter. Check for example Handwerger KE, Cordero JA, Gall JG (2005). "Cajal bodies, nucleoli, and speckles in the Xenopus oocyte nucleus have a low-density, sponge-like structure". Mol. Biol. Cell. 16 (1): 202–11. doi:10.1091/mbc.E04-08-0742. PMC 539164. PMID 15509651. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) --Mashin6 (talk) 10:06, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

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The information here is in fact a merge with coiled bodies. Cajal bodies are the location of histone gene expression in the nucleus. Rating of information present is very poor.

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