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Physiological effects of catnip on cats
editThis article is full of unverified claims about the mode of action of nepetalactone on cats. Nowhere in the scientific literature does it say that this chemical binds to pheromone receptors and causes euphoria, and a connection between "feline facial pheromone" or male cat urine is completely hypothetical, also with no literature to back it up. Lionesschan (talk) 04:12, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Disparity in some facts
editUses:
Roughly 50% of cats will be affected by the plant,[1]
Effects on Cats:
About two thirds of cats are susceptible to catnip.[2]
Note: The section from uses seems to have been copied to/from Nepeta_cataria
Major_Small (talk) 05:30, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
there is an article from 1988 that describes the catnip response. if anyone has access, it might clarify how nepetalactone influences cats: Herron, Scott (2003). "Catnip, Nepeta cataria, a Morphological Comparison of Mutant and Wild Type Specimens to Gain an Ethnobotanical Perspective". Economic Botany. 57 (1): 135–142. Zqrrld (talk) 01:34, 14 April 2012 (UTC)Zqrrld
- The relevant discussion seems to come entirely from this article: Tucker, A. O., and S. S. Tucker. 1988. Catnip and the catnip response. Economic Botany 42:214–226. The first page of that is available here. Sorry, no more time to work on it just now. Nadiatalent (talk) 12:12, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
References
- ^ http://www.cat-world.com.au/all-about-catnip
- ^ Turner, Ramona (May 29, 2007). "How does catnip work its magic on cats?". Scientific American. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
Nepeta cataria article "dumped" into this one
editThis article had the nepeta cataria article "dump merged" into this one. The text need to be re-written to fix its flow and style. Jason Quinn (talk) 06:21, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Merging
editSee tags on this and Nepeta cataria. it makes no sense to merge a species with its parent genus, rather Wikipedia encourages development of separate species pages, if only stubs. The N cataria material needs dumping out of this genus page. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 03:11, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
okay so me and my husband are in a debate over whether or not catnip gets you high or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.19.195.164 (talk) 16:54, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Nepeta taxononomy
editNepeta article has cultivar "Walker's Low" as an N. racemosa. I do recall it being in the N.x faassenii series, along with the similarly well-known "Six Hills Giant" and "Kit Kat". Someone well-versed in Nepeta needs to go over the entire article very thoroughly. C.s.auaeginal (talk) 22:59, 27 September 2012 (UTC)c.s.auaeginal, 27 Sept 2012 Thurs.