From:
mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2005-03-12 21:17:23 UTC
Subject: RE: I wonder...
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6089055.1110662243881.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
This IS what I was thinking. :) LH and FSH are no indication of the presence of adrenal disease, so it would have no use in determining if adrenal disease is presnet. If might be useful, say, if one were to give 100 mcg of Lupron and a week later test to see if FSH levels had gone down.
As Wolfy mentioned, one would probably need to test a wide variety of ferrets to develop some sort of baseline levels.
I'm really just speculating here. I have no idea if these tests are sensitive enough for this purpose and even if they are, if the results would be meaningful.
mike
Author wrote
> Some vets are beginning to wonder if a Spring shot is enough, or if it is enough for some, and if that test you noticed, Mike, or something like it could be used it sure would be a very nifty way to spot easily and cheaply for whom a measure like the preventative Spring Lupron injection worked or for whom it didn't. Knowing for whom it didn't would premit other preventative methods to be used, or for the Lupron to be repeated.
> If this possibility is the way you were thinking, I apologise for being thick of head today, MIke!