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Association with IPA Mumbai on Drugs Bio transformation – Affecting Factors

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1.What is enzyme induction? 

Answer
a) chemicals

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2. Which of the following drugs has self -induction to stimulate their own
metabolism? 

Answer
c) Meprobamate

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3. Alcohol is the inducer for which drug? 

Answer
b) Pentobarbital

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4. What is the name of the process where structurally same compounds compete
for the same site on an enzyme to inhibit that? 

Answer
d) Competitive inhibition

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5. What is the name of the process where structurally different compounds interact
with the enzyme and prevent the metabolism of the drug? 

Answer
b) Repression

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6. What is the name of the process where the enzyme amount is decreased due to
a decrease in enzyme synthesis? 

Answer
b) Repression

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7. What is the name of the process where due to nutritional deficiency an
enzyme content is decreased? 

Answer
a) Altered physiology

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8. Which one of the following is not an environmental agent to decrease drug
metabolizing ability? 

Answer
d) Methacholine

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9. What is polygenic control of drugs? 

Answer
b) Drug controlling seen in twins

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10. Differences observed in metabolism of drug among different races is known
as

Answer
b) Ethnic variations

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11. Which age group is known as the neonates? 

Answer
a) Up to 2 months

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12. Which age group metabolizes drugs faster than the adults? 

Answer
a) Between 1-12 year

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13. Fat-free diet depresses cytochrome P-450 level. 

Answer
a) True

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14. Maternal drug metabolizing ability increases in the later stage of
pregnancy. 

Answer
b) False

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15. Enzyme activity is maximum during the early morning. 

Answer
a) True