User talk:KBlott

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Neuroleptic Deletions

Thanks for your excellent suggestions at User_talk:MeekMark#Neuroleptic_Deletions! I've responded to Postcrypto's question on what to do next on the talk page for Postcrypto. — MeekMark (talk) 12:22, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Virus talk pages

If you add the {{WikiProject Viruses|class=Stub|importance=}} banner to the talk pages of virus articles you create you may get help with editing the articles from interested editors who monitor virus articles. Thanks for your article creations on primate viruses. --KP Botany (talk) 03:09, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Citations

Thanks again for your contributions to the organic anion transporter 1 article. Per our discussion, I have merged in the material from SLC22A6 into the organic anion transporter 1 article.

If you haven't seen this yet, please check out User:Diberri's Wikipedia template filling tool (instructions). Given a PubMed ID, one can quickly produce a full citation that can be copied and pasted into a Wikipedia article. This tool will save you some work and help insure that the citations are displayed in a consistent manner. Cheers. Boghog (talk) 05:15, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip. I recently installed a reference formatting widget but it doesn't seem to work. Perhaps I've simply been using it incorrectly. I've been filling out citations manually, which is very time consuming. I'll take a look at the PubMed template filling tool.

The merged OAT1 article looks good to me. The evidence relating to the hypothesis that nucleoside analog induced Fanconi syndrome is due to OAT1-positive cell cytotoxicity remains incomplete. Why, for example, is this condition characterized by glycosuria, hypophosphatemia, proteinuria, acidosis, and hypokalemia? Are S2 cells involved in the re-uptake of these substrates? I would like to address this question before I go on to do other things. KBlott (talk) 22:23, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Depending on what browser you are using, some of these Wikipedia widgets can be somewhat finicky. You might try using a different browser. Alternatively the template filling tool that I mentioned above is very simple to use. The hardest thing about using it is tracking down a PMID. Once you have that, it is very quick and easy to create a citation template.

Thanks for expanding the article further. Transporters are somewhat out of my area of expertise so I am sorry I can't provide much further help on this particular article. But it looks like the article is now in very good hands :-) Keep up the good work! Boghog (talk) 17:16, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'm afraid my interest in OAT1 is likely to be short lived, depending on other demands for my time. There is certainly an abundance of OAT1 literature which I have yet to read. The link to the template filler that you provided was very helpful.

I am currently running under Internet Explorer. Firefox is not installed on my current system. Although Firefox has better functionality than IE, in practice, all that overhead slows down run time. My productivity tends to decline sharply when response time is slow. KBlott (talk) 20:41, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I would like to write an article titled "When should antiretroviral therapy be initiated?" This issue is very controversial. May I request edit protection from user:hamiltonstone?

No. Edit protection is not used pre-emptively; content disputes should be worked out on the talk page and if necessary by use of WP:Dispute resolution. Remember that what you write must follow the principles of WP:Neutral point of view and WP:Verifiability from reliable published sources. Also, your proposed article sounds like a content fork of the existing Antiretroviral therapy; please read WP:Content forking for guidance on whether that would be appropriate. JohnCD (talk) 15:36, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Antiretroviral drug page claims that Antiretroviral drug treatment guidelines have changed many times. Early recommendations attempted a "hit hard, hit early" approach. This isn't true. ^[1] If Wikipedia wants to rewrite history, it has that right. However, I will not waste my time attempting to correct the antiretroviral page.

^ Blott KW (1991). "Administration of zidovudine for treatment of infection due to human immunodeficiency virus". Rev. Infect. Dis. 13 (1): 186–7. PMID 2017626.

[pmid2017626-1] Blott KW (1991). "Administration of zidovudine for treatment of infection due to human immunodeficiency virus". Rev. Infect. Dis. 13 (1): 186–7. PMID 2017626.

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