BIOPHARM - VIOLET Flashcards
PACOP
It is the ability of a drug to exist in two or more crystalline form:
A. Chirality
B. Polymorphism
C. Stereoisomerism
D. A and C
E. None of these
B
Arrange the following dosage forms from highest to lowest dissolution rate:
I. Solution III. Suspension
II. Capsule IV. Tablet
A. I, II, III, IV
B. I, III, II, IV
C. IV, III, II, I
D. IV, II, III, I
E. None of these
B
All of the following statements aretrye regarding particle size of a drug, EXCEPT:
A. Reducing the particle size can decrease the surface are the molecule exposed to the solvent.
B. Reduction of paticle size can be achieved by micronisation using jet mill, spray drying and air attrition
methods.
C. The dissolution of some drugs available in the market has been improved by reducing the particle
size.
D. Reducing the particle size of a drug may increase drug absorption.
E. None of these
A
Which of the following may increase drug dissolution rate?
I. Too muh binder
II. Insoluble diluents
III. High amount of lubricants
A. I only
B. I and II
C. II and III
D. I, II, AND III
E. None of these
E
Which of the following is not true regarding the purpose of tablet coating?
A. Improves palatability
B. Improve aesthetic value of tablet
C. Improve stability
D. Improve in-vivo degradation
E. None of these
D
A surface active agent that facilitates the absorption of lipophilic drug or water insoluble drugs
A. Bile
B. Albumin
C. Renin
D. Gastric acid
E. None of these
A
Phase 2 metabolism that protects the body against chemically reactive metabolites
A. Sulfate conjugation
B. Glutathione conjugation
C. Methylation
D. Acetylation
E. Glycine conjugation
B
All of the following listed below are processes of drug excretion, EXCEPT:
A. Glomerular filtration
B. Active secretion
C. Tubular secretion
D. Tubular reabsorption
E. None of these
E
It is the basic functional unit of the kidney
A. Glomerulus
B. Loop of henle
C. Nephron
D. Collecting tubule
E. None of these
C
Creatinine clearance of a patient with kidney failure
A. 60-89 mL
B. 30-59 mL
C. 15-29 mL
D. <15 mL
E. None of these
D
Which of the following drugs listed belowwill increase its clearance at alkaline urine?
I. Amphetamine
II. Imipramine
III. Barbiturates
IV. Salicylic acid
A. I and II C. III and IV E. None of these
B. II and III D. All of these
C
Which of the following correctly describes ion trapping
A. Changing the pH of urine used to facilitate the elimination of drug that proved to be toxic to a patient
or has been taken in overdosed amount
B. Administration of acidic drug to neutralize am alkaline poison in the stomach
C. Alkalinizing the urine to facilitate excretion of weakly basic drugs
D. A and C
E. None of these
A
Discipline that applie Pharmacokinetic concepts and principles in humans in order to design individualized
dosage regimens that optimize the therapeutic response of a medication while minimizing the chance of an
adverse drug reaction
A. Clinical toxicology
B. Clinical pharmacy
C. Clinical Pharmacokinetics
D. Pharmacotherapeutics
E. None of these
C
Chemical conversion of the drug molecule, usually by an enzymatically mediated reaction, into another
chemical entity referred to as a metabolite
A. Absorption
B. Distribution
C. Metabolism
D. Excretion
E. None of these
C
Volume of serum or blood completely cleared of the drug per unit time
A. Volume of distribution
B. Clearance
C. Elimination
D. Plasma concentration
E. None of these
B
Hypothetical volume that relates drug serum concentrations to the amount of drug in the body
A. Volume of distribution
B. Clearance
C. Drug Elimination
D. Plasma concentration
E. None of these
A
All of the following factors affects the volume of distribution of drug, EXCEPT
A. Volume of blood
B. Size of various organs and tissue in the body
C. Protein binding
D. Physicochemical properties of drug
E. None of these
E
The fraction of administered dose that is delivered to the systemic circulation is known as the
A. Loading of dose
B. Maintenance dose
C. Bioavailability
D. Active dose
E. None of these
C
Below is an example of
A. Dose response curve
B. Plasma level time curve
C. Quantal dose response curve
D. A and B
E. None of these
B
All of the following are true regarding the rate of drug distribution, EXCEPT:
A. The rate of drug distribution will be faster in highly perfuse tissues
B. The blood brain barrier(BBB) prevents the distribution of many polar compounds in the blood to the
brain tissues
C. Only the lipophilic compounds can distribute across BBB by passive diffusion
D. The equilibrium between the drug in the blood and the drug in highly perfused tissues is achieved
slower than the equilibrium between the drug in blood and the poorly perfused tissues
E. Non of these
D
Which of the following factors affect drug distribution?
1. Blood perfusion
2. Tissue composition
3. Plasma protein binding
4 Physicochemical properties of drug
A. 1 only
B. 1 and 2
C. 2 and 3
D. 1, 2, 3, 4
E. None of these
D
Technique in the determination of drug plasma protein binding that utilize a special dialysis chamber that is separated
into two halves by a semipermeable membrane that allows the transfer of the free drug molecule but not the drug bound
to protein.
A. Ultrafiltration
B. Equilibrium dialysis
C. Hemodialysis
D. A and B
E. None of these
B
Which of the following statements are true regarding volume of distribution (Vd) ?
A. Relates the amount of absorbed drug
B. Total volume of the drug absorbed
C. Drugs that are highly distributed
into the tissues have low Vd
D. Drugs that are highly bound to plasma
with the amount of eliminated drug. proteins have low Vd
E. All of these
D
Elimination of a drug refers to:
I. Excretion of unchanged drug in the urine
II. Renal excretion of drug
III. Uptake of a drug from the blood into the liver
IV. Metabolism of drug in the liver
V. Distribution of drug into fat
A. I and II D. III and V
B. II and III E. None of these
C. II and IV
C
The loading dose of a drug is determined by:
I. Drug clearance
II. Elimination rate
III. Target plasma drug concentration
IV. Volume of distribution
V. Duration of drug effect
A. I and II
B. II and III
C. III and IV
D. IV and V
E. All of these
C
Half-life:
I. Increases as the clearance increases
II. Decreases as the volume of distribution increases
III. Decreases as clearance increases
IV. Increases as volume of distribution increases
V. Increases as the elimination rate increases
A. I and II D. IV and V
B. II and III E. None of these
C. III and IV
C
After a single dose of a drug which has a half-life of 12 hours, what percentage of the dose is still in the body after 1
day?
A. 87.5% D. 25%
B. 75% E. 12.5%
C. 50%
D
Which of the following routes of administration completely avoid first pass clearance?
I. Buccal
II. Sublingual
III. Rectal
IV. Oral
V. Transdermal
A. I and II D. I, II and V
B. I, II and III E. III and V
C. I, II and IV
D
The term linear pharmacokinetic means:
I. A plot of drug concentration vs. time is linear
II. Half-life increases proportionally with dose
III. A constant amount of drug is eliminated per unit time
IV. Clearance is proportional to the dose
V. Steady state drug concentration is proportional to the dose
A. I only D. II and IV
B. I and II E. V only
C. III only
E
Which of the following process are saturable and can result in non-linear pharmacokinetics?
I. Drug metabolism
II. Glomerular filtration
III. Protein binding
IV. Renal tubular secretion
A. I only
B. II, III and IV
C. I, II, and IV
D. I, III and IV
E. None of these
D
The study of the time course of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion is called:
A. Pharmacodynamics D. Kinetics Homogeneity
B. Drug concentration E. Biopharmaceutics
C. Pharmacokinetics
C
The application of pharmacokinetic principles to the safe and effective therapeutic management of drugs in and
individual patient is known as:
A. Pharmacodynamics D. Biopharmaceutics
B. Pharmacokinetics E. None of these
C. Clinical pharmacokinetics
C
Pharmacodynamics refers to the relationship of drug:
A. Dose to drug concentration in plasma D. Dose to drug effect
B. Dose to drug concentration at the E. None of these
receptor site
C. Concentration to drug effect
C
The EC50 refers to the drug concentration at which:
A. One-half the maximum response is achieved. D. Minimum effective concentration
B. The maximal effect is achieved. E. Minimum toxic concentration
C. Tolerance is likely to be observed.
A
An example of a situation that would not support therapeutic drug concentration monitoring with plasma drug
concentrations would be one in which:
A. A wide variation in plasma drug concentrations is achieved in different patients given a standar
drug dose.
B. The toxic plasma concentration is many times the therapeutic concentration range.
C. Correlation between a drug’s plasma concentration and therapeutic response is good.
D. A and B
E. B and C
B
The most commonly used model in clinical pharmacokinetic situations is the:
A. One-compartment model
B. Two-compartment model
C. Multicompartment model
D. A and C
E. All of these
A
Instantaneous distribution to most body tissues and fluids is assumed in
which of the following models?
A. One-compartment model
B. Two-compartment model
C. Multicompartment model
D. A and C
E. All of these
A
For a drug that has first-order elimination and follows a one-compartment model,
which of the following plots would result in a curved line?
A. Plasma concentration versus time D. A and B
B. Natural log of plasma concentration
E. B and C
versus time
C. Common log of plasma concentration
versus time
A
For the body fluid compartments below, rank them from the lowest volume to the highest, in a typical 70-kg person.
A. Plasma < extracellular fluid < intracellular D. Total body water < plasma <
fluid < total body water intracellular fluid < extracellular fluid
B. Extracellular fluid < intracellular fluid < E. None of these
plasma < total body water
C. Intracellular fluid < extracellular fluid <
plasma < total body water
A
All of the following are true regarding clearance, EXCEPT
I. The unit for clearance is volume/time
II. Total body clearance is the sum of clearance by the kidneys, liver,
and other routes of elimination
III. To determine drug clearance, we must first determine whether a drug
best fits one or two compartment model
A. I only D. III only
B. II only E. None of these
C. II and III
D
With a drug that follows first-order elimination, the amount of drug eliminated per unit time:
A. Remains constant while the fraction of drug eliminated decreases
B. Decreases while the fraction of drug eliminated remains constant.
C. Increases while the fraction of drug eliminated remains constant.
D. B or C
E. None of these
B
Which of the following is a proper unit for 1st order elimination rate constant?
A. Minutes D. mg/L
B. mg/minute E. A and B
C. hr1
C
Trapezoidal rule method is used in the computation of:
A. K D. Vd
B. T1⁄2 E. Cl
C. AUC
C
Which of the following are true regarding AUC?
I. Can be used to determine drug clearance
II. Reflects the amount of drug absorbed
III. Dose administered divided by the drug’s clearance
A. I only D. All of these
B. I and II E. None of these
C. II and III
D
Gentamicin has a t1⁄2 of:
A. 39 hours C. 7 hours E. 2-3 hours
B. 22 hours D. 20 hours
E
The time between administration of doses is the:
A. Onset time D. tmax
B. Dosing range E. None of these
C. Dosing interval
C
The point at which the amount of drug administered over a dosing interval equals the amount of drug being eliminated
over that same period and is totally dependent on the elimination rate constant
A. Rate constant D. Absorption phase
B. Steady state E. None of these
C. Elimination
B
Steady-state concentration can be increase by adjusting which of the following parameters?
I. t1⁄2
II. Dose administered
III. Dosing interval
A. I only D. All of these
B. II only E. None of these
C. II and III
C
To predict the plasma concentration of a drug at any time t after n number of doses, we therefore need to know which
among the following values?
I. Drug dose
II. Volume of distribution
III. Elimination rate constant
IV. Dosing interval
A. I and II D. All of these
B. II and III E. None of these
C. III and IV
D
This method of giving multiple doses by infusion at specified intervals is called:
A. IV bolus D. A and B
B. Intermittent IV infusion E. None of these
C. Multiple infusion
B
For a drug regimen, if the elimination rate (K) of a drug is reduced while volume of distribution, drug dose, and dosing
interval remain constant, the peak and trough concentrations will:
A. increase D. A or B
B. decrease E. None of these
C. remains the same
A
Method used in toxicokinetics and for the extrapolation of therapeutic drug doses in humans from nonclinical animal
drug studies.
A. Interspecies scaling D. A and C
B. Toxicological extrapolation E. None of these
C. Linear analysis
A
A condition in which glomerular filtration is impaired or reduced, leading to accumulation of excessive fluid and blood
nitrogenous products in the body.
A. Cystitis D. Hypovolemia
B. Uremia E. None of these
C. Pancreatitis
B
Common cause of kidney failure, EXCEPT:
I. Pyelonephritis
II. Hypotension
III. Diabetes mellitus
IV. Nephroallergens
A. I only C. II only E. IV only
B. I and II D. III and IV
C
A fructose polysaccharide used as a standard reference for the measurement of GFR:
A. Chitosan D. Chitin
B. Inulin E. A and B
C. Cellulose
B
The normal blood urea nitrogen for a patient is:
A. 1-10 mg/dL D. 30-40 mg/dL
B. 10-20 mg/dL E. 40-50 mg/dL
C. 20-30 mg/dL
B