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c) Excretion of substances
d) Interaction of substances
Answer : c
PHARMACOKINETICS
Multiple Choice Questions 4. The main mechanism of most drugs
absorption in GI tract is:
:- a) Active transport (carrier-mediated
diffusion)
1. Pharmacokinetics is:
b) Filtration (aqueous diffusion)
a) The study of biological and therapeutic
c) Endocytosis and exocytosis
effects of drugs
d) Passive diffusion (lipid diffusion)
b) The study of absorption, distribution,
metabolism and excretion of drugs
Answer : d
c) The study of mechanisms of drug
action
5. What kind of substances can’t
d) The study of methods of new drug
permeate membranes by passive
development
diffusion?
a) Lipid-soluble
Answer : b
b) Non-ionized substances
c) Hydrophobic substances
2. What does “pharmacokinetics”
d) Hydrophilic substances
include?
a) Complications of drug therapy
Answer : d
b) Drug biotransformation in the
organism
6. A hydrophilic medicinal agent has the
c) Influence of drugs on metabolism
following property:
processes
a) Low ability to penetrate through the
d) Influence of drugs on genes
cell membrane lipids
b) Penetrate through membranes by
Answer : b
means of endocytosis
c) Easy permeation through the blood-
3. What does “pharmacokinetics”
brain barrier
include?
d) High reabsorption in renal tubules
a) Localization of drug action
b) Mechanisms of drug action
Answer : a
7. What is implied by «active transport»? 11. Which route of drug administration is
a) Transport of drugs trough a membrane most likely to lead to the first-pass effect?
by means of diffusion a) Sublingual
b) Transport without energy consumption b) Oral
c) Engulf of drug by a cell membrane c) Intravenous
with a new vesicle formation d) Intramuscular
d) Transport against concentration
gradient Answer : b
Answer : a Answer : b
19. All of the following statements about 23. What term is used to describe a more
efficacy and potency are true EXCEPT: gradual decrease in responsiveness to a
a) Efficacy is usually a more important drug, taking days or weeks to develop?
clinical consideration than potency a) Refractoriness
b) Efficacy is the maximum effect of a drug b) Cumulative effect
c) Potency is a comparative measure, refers c) Tolerance
to the different doses of two drugs that are d) Tachyphylaxis
needed to produce the same effect
d) The ED5 is a measure of drug’s 24. What term is used to describe a
efficacy decrease in responsiveness to a drug
which develops in a few minutes?
20. Give the definition for a therapeutical a) Refractoriness
dose: b) Cumulative effect
a) The amount of a substance to produce the c) Tolerance
minimal biological effect d) Tachyphylaxis
b) The amount of a substance to produce
effects hazardous for an organism 25. Tachyphylaxis is:
c) The amount of a substance to produce a) A drug interaction between two similar
the required effect in most patients types of drugs
d) The amount of a substance to accelerate b) Very rapidly developing tolerance
an increase of concentration of medicine in c) A decrease in responsiveness to a drug,
an organism taking days or weeks to develop
d) None of the above
PHARMACODYNAMICS
Interview Questions and Answers :: 26. Drug resistance is a term used to
describe the loss of effectiveness of
21. Pick out the correct definition of a antimicrobial or antitumour drugs. This
toxic dose: consideration is:
a) The amount of substance to produce the a) True
minimal biological effect b) False
b) The amount of substance to produce
effects hazardous for an organism 27. Tolerance and drug resistance can be
c) The amount of substance to produce the a consequence of:
necessary effect in most of patients a) Drug dependence
d) The amount of substance to fast creation b) Increased metabolic degradation
of high concentration of medicine in an c) Depressed renal drug excretion
organism d) Activation of a drug after hepatic first-
pass
22. Which effect may lead to toxic
reactions when a drug is taken
28. Tolerance and drug resistance can be b) Physical and chemical interaction
a consequence of: c) Pharmaceutical interaction
a) Change in receptors, loss of them or d) Pharmacokinetic interaction
exhaustion of mediators
b) Increased receptor sensitivity 34. What phenomenon can occur in case
c) Decreased metabolic degradation of using a combination of drugs?
d) Decreased renal tubular secretion a) Tolerance
b) Tachyphylaxis
29. Tolerance develops because of: c) Accumulation
a) Diminished absorption d) Synergism
b) Rapid excretion of a drug
c) Both of the above 35. If two drugs with the same effect,
d) None of the above taken together, produce an effect that is
equal in magnitude to the sum of the
30. Dependence is often associated with effects of the drugs given individually, it
tolerance to a drug, a physical abstinence is called as:
syndrome, and psychological a) Antagonism
dependence (craving). This consideration b) Potentiation
is: c) Additive effect
a) True d) None of the above
b) False
36. What does the term “potentiation”
31. The situation when failure to continue mean?
administering the drug results in serious a) Cumulative ability of a drug
psychological and somatic disturbances b) Hypersensitivity to a drug
is called? c) Fast tolerance developing
a) Tachyphylaxis d) Intensive increase of drug effects due
b) Sensibilization to their combination
c) Abstinence syndrome
d) Idiosyncrasy 37. The types of antagonism are:
a) Summarized
32. What is the type of drug-to-drug b) Potentiated
interaction which is connected with c) Additive
processes of absorption, d) Competitive
biotransformation, distribution and
excretion? 38. The term “chemical antagonism”
a) Pharmacodynamic interaction means that:
b) Physical and chemical interaction a) two drugs combine with one another to
c) Pharmaceutical interaction form an inactive compound
d) Pharmacokinetic interaction b) two drugs combine with one another to
form a more active compound
33. What is the type of drug-to-drug c) two drugs combine with one another to
interaction which is the result of form a more water soluble compound
interaction at receptor, cell, enzyme or d) two drugs combine with one another to
organ level? form a more fat soluble compound
a) Pharmacodynamic interaction
39. A teratogenic action is:
a) Toxic action on the liver
b) Negative action on the fetus causing
fetal malformation
c) Toxic action on blood system
d) Toxic action on kidneys