After teaching a group of students about Simmonds' disease, the instructor determines that additional instruction is necessary when the students identify which hormone as being involved?
A) Growth hormone
B) Luteinizing hormone
C) Adrenocorticotropic hormone
D) Oxytocin
D
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Oxytocin is a hormone of the posterior pituitary gland and would not be involved. Simmonds' disease affects all hormones of the anterior pituitary: GH (bones and muscles), adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH; adrenals), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH; thyroid), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH; ovaries and testes), luteinizing hormone (LH; ovaries), interstitial cell-stimulating hormone (ICSH [LH]; testes), and prolactin (breasts).
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