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A 21-year-old female is suspected of having inadequate function of her hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid system.
 
  Her care provider is planning to inject thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) and then measure her levels of TSH. Which of the following diagnostic tests is being performed?
  A)
  Suppression test
  B)
  Radioimmunoassay (RIA) test
  C)
  Stimulation test
  D)
  Metabolite excretion test
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A stimulation test involves the introduction of an element that stimulates the production of another factor or hormone followed by measurement of that hormone. This is not the case in a suppression test, RIA test, or metabolite excretion test.
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