MEDICOLOGY: PHARMACOLOGY QUIZZES 12 | Multiple Choice Questions| Medical Exam Preparations

Sunday, January 30, 2022

PHARMACOLOGY QUIZZES 12 | Multiple Choice Questions| Medical Exam Preparations

 01. Which one of the following drugs is an Insulin secretagogue?

A. Glyburide
B. Metformin
C. Pioglitazone
D. Sitagliptin

Answer: A. Glyburide

02. which one of the following drugs is an indirectly acting reversible cholinergic agonist drug?
A. Physostigmine
B. Echothiophate
C. Bethanechol
D. Pralidoxime

Answer: A. Physostigmine

03. Epinephrine and Norepinephrine are which types of agonists?
A. Nonselective adrenergic agonists
B. Selective adrenergic agonists
C. Direct-acting cholinergic agonists
D. indirect-acting cholinergic agonists

Answer. A. Nonselective adrenergic agonists

04. Which drug belongs to the Quinoline methanol antimalarial class?
A. Mefloquine
B. Chloroquine
C. Quinine
D. Quinidine
E. Pyrimethamine

Answer
 A. Mefloquine is a drug that belongs to the Quinoline methanol antimalarial class used in malaria by Acting on the membrane of parasite and damaging this membrane of plasmodium falciparum. It's effective against the erythrocytic form of the malarial parasite.
Chloroquine
Chloroquine is a 4-aminoquinoline drug prepared synthetically also used in antimalarial therapy. Chloroquine is a drug of choice in the treatment of erythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum.
Quinine And Quinidine
 Quinidine is a stereoisomer of Quinine. Both of these drugs affect on Erythrocytic form of plasmodium falciparum which results in the death of the parasite.
Pyrimethamine
 Pyrimethamine is an antifolate agent used as Blood Schizonticide. It inhibits Plasmodium dihydrofolate reductase.

06. Which one of the following drugs is a CLASS IV Antiarrhythmic drug?
A. Aspirin 
B. Propranolol
C. Amiodarone
D. Verapamil

Answer: D. Verapamil

07. A drug that is a part of Aminoglycosides is following?
A. Cefaclor
B. Amikacin
C. Cefdinir
D. Cefepime

Answer: B. Amikacin


09. Which one of the following drugs belongs to 1st generation Cephalosporins?
A. Cefaclor
B. Cefadroxil
C. Cefdinir
D. Cefepime

Answer: B. Cefadroxil

10. Which one of the following drugs belongs to drugs for obesity?
A. Aluminium hydroxide 
B. Phentermine
C. Nizatidine 
D. Ezetimibe
E. Indanyl carbenicillin 

Answer: B. Phentermine

11. Which one of the following drugs causes phocomalia?
A. busulfan
B. cyclophosphamide
C. thalidomide
D. cytarabine 

Answer: C. Thalidomide

12. Which of the following imaging studies is used to help in  diagnose and location of a tumor?
A. Radiographs 
B. CT scans 
C. MRI
D. Positron emission tomography (PET)
E. A & B
F. All of the above 

Answer: F. All of the above 

13. A phase in which the cell divides into two daughter cells?
A. M phase 
B. G1 phase 
C. S phase 
D. G2 phase 
E. G0 phase 

Answer: A. M phase 

14. Monday morning syndrome is the adverse effect of following?
A. Risedronate
B. Rabeprazole
C. Isosorbide dinitrate 
D. Metronidazole  
E. Minoxidil 

Answer: C. Isosorbide dinitrate


15. A 45-year-old woman has a syndrome characterized by severe gastric hyperacidity, peptic ulcer disease, and gastrinomas. The most appropriate drug to treat this syndrome is:
A. Famotidine
B. Mesalamine
C. Misoprostol
D. Omeprazole
E. Sucralfate


Answer: D. Omeprazole 

16.  A fungistatic drug that causes disruption of mitotic spindles and inhibition of fungal mitosis is following?
A. Nystatin
B. Griseofulvin
C. Terbinafine
D. Caspofungin


Answer B. Griseofulvin (binds to tubulin and inhibit mitosis) Replaced by Terbinafine to treat onychomycosis still used for scalp and hair dermatophytosis. Long duration of treatment 6 to 12 months for onychomycosis. Available in ultrafine crystallinity preparation. 


17. Chitin a polymer of N-acetylglucosamine is found in the cell wall of the following?
A. Bacterial
B. Viral
C. Fungal
D. Protozoa


Answer: C. Fungal
The cell wall of fungi consists of Chitin a polymer of N-acetylglucosamine rather than peptidoglycan a component of the bacterial cell wall. Also it contains ergosterol than cholesterol in cell. 

18. A disease that affects the entire colon is called?
A. Pancolitis 
B. Proctosigmoiditis 
C. Proctitis
D. Crohn's colitis


Answer: A. Pancolitis

19. Which one of the following drugs is 1st generation sulfonylurea?
A. Glipizide
B. Nateglinide 
C. Pioglitazone
D. Tolbutamide

Answer: D. Tolbutamide

20. Which of the following drugs are highly bound to albumin?
A. Nafcillin
B. Prednisolone
C. Phenytoin 
D. A & B
E. All of the above 

Answer: E. All of the above 




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