Talk:Prokineticin

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Ambiguous parse[edit]

Other important physiological roles the Bv8/Prokineticins (PKs) are involved in may include cancer, reproduction, and regulating physiological functions that influence circadian rhythms like hormone secretion, ingestive behaviors, and the sleep/wake cycle.

Let's break that down.

Other important physiological roles the Bv8/Prokineticins (PKs) are involved in may include:

cancer

reproduction

and regulating physiological functions that influence circadian rhythms like:
hormone secretion

ingestive behaviors

and the sleep/wake cycle.

Let's break that down differently:

Other important physiological roles the Bv8/Prokineticins (PKs) are involved in may include:

cancer

reproduction

and regulating physiological functions:
that influence circadian rhythms (like hormone secretion)

ingestive behaviors

and the sleep/wake cycle.

The second strikes me as implausible grammatically, but the sleep/wake cycle is a physiological function (favours version 2), whereas it's hard to see how sleep/wake cycles influence circadian rhythms, rather than the other way around (disfavours version 1).

Second time today I exploded a compound-list and discovered a big mess. — MaxEnt 18:23, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]