Concerning the anterior pituitary hormones, which one of the following statements is false?
A) The anterior pituitary makes six hormones, thyrotropin, follitropin, lutropin, somatotropin, prolactin and adrenocorticotropin.
B) Production of the anterior pituitary hormones are all stimulated by releasing factors made by the hypothalamus and which are carried from the hypothalamus to the anterior pituitary via the blood.
C) Overproduction of lutropin/follitropin is seen in Kallman's Syndrome which is characterized by failure to sexually mature and grow.
D) Thyrotropin stimulates the thyroid gland and is made up of an alpha subunit and a beta subunit but the beta subunit is the only one of the two subunits that is specific for thyrotropin.
E) Somatotropin's main function of growth promotion is indirect via raising the levels of somatomedin c (insulin-like Growth Factor I) .
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