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General Assignment
pass effect?
a. Intravenous
b. Inhalational
c. Oral
d. Sublingual (SL)
e. Intramuscular
Two drugs may act on the same tissue or organ through independent
receptors, resulting in effects in opposite directions. This is known as
a. Physiologic antagonism
b. Chemical antagonism
c. Competitive antagonism
d. Irreversible antagonism
e. Dispositional antagonism
If a drug is repeatedly administered at dosing intervals that are equal toits
elimination half-life, the number of doses required for the plasma con-
centration of the drug to reach the steady state is
a. 2 to 3
b. 4 to 5
c. 6 to 7
d. 8 to 9
e. 10 or more
Which of the following is classified as belonging to the tyrosine kinase
family of receptors?
a. GABA receptor
A
b.β-adrenergic receptor
c. Insulin receptor
d. Nicotinic II receptor
e. Hydrocortisone receptor
If the total amount of a drug present in the body at a given moment is 2.0 g and
its plasma concentration is 25 μg/ml, its volume of distribution is:
A. 100 L
B. 80 L
C. 60 L
D. 50 L
If a drug is eliminated by first order kinetics:
A. A constant amount of the drug will be eliminated per unit time
B. Its clearance value will remain constant
C. Its elimination half life will increase with dose
D. It will be completely eliminated from the body in2 × half life
period
The therapeutic index of a drug is a measure of its:
A. Safety
B. Potency
C. Efficacy
D. Dose variability
Addiction and habituation:
A. Are fundamentally different phenomena
B. Are produced by different set of drugs/substances
C. Differ from one another by the presence or absence of
physical dependence
D. Differ from each other in the degree of attendant
psychological dependence
The antagonism between adrenaline and histamine is called
‘Physiological antagonism’ because
regardless of the dose. Picrotoxin has no sedative effect, even at the highest dose.
Two drugs having opposite action on different receptors is which type of antagonism?
Which is the most accurate method for calculating drug dosage in children?
The most general term for the process by which the amount of active drug in the body is reduced after
absorption into the systemic circulation is ……..
The study of how variation in the human genome affect the response to medications is known as?
Which route of drug administration avoids first pass hepatic metabolism and is used with drug
preparation that slowly releases drugs for periods as long as seven days?