Quiz: Follicle-Stimulating Hormone (Answers)

Check your answers if correct:

1. Follicle-Stimulating Hormone

2. Anterior Pituitary Gland

3. Germ cell

4. 1.24 – 7.8 mlU/L

5. True

6. Decreased FSH level

7. Increased FSH level

8. Increased FSH level

9. Decreased FSH level

10. Increased FSH level

Case analysis:

The girl has a delayed puberty and may be suffering from a Gonodal failure, hormone deficiency or Turner's syndrome.

Another test that can be performed is to test the response of LH to GnRH to diagnose possible reasons for a delayed puberty.

Quiz: Follicle-Stimulating Hormone

How much do you know?

1. Transcribe FSH

2. Where FSH is synthesized and secreted

3. FSH stimulates the maturation of what cell

4. Normal FSH in a 20 year old male

5. True or False: FSH is a glycoprotein

Increased or decreased FSH

6. Anorexia

7. Alcoholism

8. Menopausal Stage

9. Sheehan’s syndrome

10. Hypopituarism

Case analysis:

A 15 yr. old girl looks at the mirror and she notices that her breast doesn't seem to be growing bigger, she has not yet experienced her first menstruation period and she doesn't look like a girl who is on her puberty.

Her FSH level is below the normal level of a youth within the age range of puberty. What can be the diagnosis of the test? What other tests can be performed?