follicle-stimulating hormone activity

id: GO:0016913
name: follicle-stimulating hormone activity
namespace: molecular_function
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The action characteristic of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), a gonadotrophic glycoprotein hormone secreted, in mammals, by the anterior pituitary gland. Upon receptor binding, FSH stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in the ovaries in females, and stimulates the epithelium of the seminiferous tubules to increase spermatogenesis.

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