From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2006-07-01 05:17:53 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] estrogenic and antiandrogenic properties of tea tree oil and lavender oil
To: FHL <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>, ferret-list@cunyvm.cuny.edu
I seem to recall some people who were using tea tree oil or lavender
oil on ferrets. It might be a bad idea. New research into breast
development in young males who had not been using other things which
can have this effect led researchers to study these two oils.
> Bloch contacted Derek Henley and Kenneth Korach of the National
> Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle
> Park, N.C. In their lab, the two investigators exposed human-breast
> cells to lavender oil and, separately, to tea tree oil. They found
> that each oil turned on estrogen-regulated genes and inhibited an
> androgen-regulated gene.
With ferrets already prone to too many endocrinological problems
these are very likely best avoided at this point.
> "These oils possess both estrogenic and anti-androgenic
> properties," Henley reported at the Endocrine Society meeting in
> Boston this week. He adds that the finding is the first to
> implicate "essential oils" from plants in gynecomastia.
(See the upcoming edition of Science News.)
-- Sukie (not a vet, and not speaking for any of the below in my
private posts)
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