Final Review Questions Flashcards
Enkephalins are produced by neurons in the descending CNS pathways. Increased levels of enkephalins will reduce nociception. What mechanism would be utilized by enkephalins to reduce pain?
A. inhibit excitatory interneurons
B. stimulate excitatory interneurons
C. inhibit inhibitory interneurons
D. stimulate inhibitory interneurons
D. stimulate inhibitory interneurons
How is it that the patient cannot be anesthetized with lidocaine?
A. The patient has a low number of TTX-S voltage-gated Na+ channels.
B. The patient has a high number of TTX-S voltage-gated Na+ channels.
C. Lidocaine is unable to bind and inhibit TTX-S voltage-gated Na+ channels.
D. Inflammation is causing an increase in response from TTX-R voltage-gated Na+ channels.
E. Prostaglandins increase the stimulatory response by increasing Ca2+ flux.
F. The concentration of lidocaine is insufficient to inhibit TTX-S voltage-gated Na+ channels.
D. Inflammation is causing an increase in response from TTX-R voltage-gated Na+ channels.
An increase of intracellular sodium levels in nociceptors is caused by the activation of which pathway?
A. heat activation of vanilloid receptors
B. ATP activation of purinergic receptors
C. proton activation of acid sensing ion channels
D. bradykinin activation of protein kinase A and protein kinase C
C. proton activation of acid sensing ion channels
What activates vaniloid receptors?
Noxious heat
What activates purinergic receptors?
ATP
What activates acid sensing ion channels?
Na+ (sodium)
What activates bradykinin activation of protein kinase A and protein kinase C?
Ca2+ (calcium)
- Which of the following has the highest concentration of nociceptor nerve endings?
A. enamel
B. dentin
C. odontoblastic layer
D. dentinal tubules
B. dentin
- What is a consequence of injecting lidocaine into the oral cavity for local anesthesia?
A. Inhibitory interneurons will be stimulated.
B. Excitatory interneurons will be stimulated.
C. Na+ flux on the projection neuron will be directly inhibited.
D. Noxious stimuli will not induce Ca2+ flux at the site of injury.
E. Release of glutamate at the respective dorsal horn will be significantly reduced.
E. Release of glutamate at the respective dorsal horn will be significantly reduced.
- A region of the lung has low concentration of CO2 and high concentration of O2. How will air flow and blood flow change to balance gas concentration in this region? Air flow will ___ and blood flow will ___.
A. increase, increase
B. increase, decrease
C. decrease, increase
D. decrease, decrease
E. There will be no change in air or blood flow
C. Decrease, increase
- Which muscle(s) contract(s) for expiration during eupnea? (SELECT ALL CORRECT ANSWER(S).)
A. Diaphragm
B. External intercostal
C. Abdominal muscles
D. Internal intercostal
E. None of the above
E. none of the above
Which muscles will contract during eupnea?
NONE
The muscles for inhalation will just relax
What is eupnea?
NORMAL RESPIRATORY BREATHING
What muscles are involved with inhalation?
- Diaphragm
- External intercostal muscles
What muscles are involved with FORCED exhalation?
- Abdominal muscles
- Internal intercostal muscles
- How can the rate of oxygen exchange between the alveoli and blood capillaries be increased?
A. Increase the diffusion coefficient by increasing the number of oxygen transport channels.
B. Increase the partial pressure gradient by breathing air with higher oxygen levels.
C. Dilate the airways to increase the air flow rate.
D. Increase respiratory rate.
E. Decrease the anatomic dead space.
B. Increase the partial pressure gradient by breathing air with higher oxygen levels.
- How would increasing tidal volume affect the anatomic dead space?
A. increases anatomic dead space
B. decreases anatomic dead space
C. has no effect on anatomic dead space
C. has no effect on anatomic dead space
- How is the majority of O2 carried in blood?
A. dissolved in plasma
B. dissolved in cytosol of RBC
C. bound to plasma proteins
D. bound to hemoglobin
D. bound to hemoglobin
Low O2 levels in the alveoli will cause the pulmonary arterioles to ___. Low O2 levels in the tissues will cause systemic arterioles to ___.
A. constrict, constrict
B. constrict, dilate
C. dilate, constrict
D. dilate, dilate
B. constrict, dilate
- Contraction of the diaphragm is mostly regulated by neurons in which respiratory center?
A. Botzinger complex
B. pre-Botzinger complex
C. ventral respiratory group
D. dorsal respiratory group
D. dorsal respiratory group
What are the major groups involved in respiration in the medulla?
- Botzinger’s complex
- Ventral respiratory group
- Dorsal respiratory group
What are the type of neurons in the Botzinger’s complex?
EXPIRATORY NEURONS
What are the type of neurons in the ventral respiratory group?
BOTH EXPIRATORY AND INSPIRATORY NEURONS
What are the type of neurons in the dorsal respiratory group?
INSPIRATORY NEURONS
(control diaphragm)
The activity of the carotid bodies increases when the PO2 is ___ and/or the PCO2 is ___.
A. low, high
B. low, low
C. high, high
D. high, low
A. low, high
- How does hyperventilation affect the patient’s inspiratory reserve volume? (Comparisons are to resting condition.)
A. Increase
B. Decrease
C. No effect
A. Increase
- What is the function of carbonic anhydrase?
A. increase the affinity of hemoglobin to carbon dioxide
B. increase the PCO2 of blood
C. decrease the PCO2 of blood
D. catalyze interconversion between CO2 + H2O and H+ + HCO3-
D. catalyze interconversion between CO2 + H2O and H+ + HCO3-
- How does hyperventilation affect the patient’s expiratory reserve volume? (Comparisons are to resting condition.)
A. increase
B. decrease
C. no effect
A. increase
- Blood clot is slowly dissolved by ___.
A. thrombin
B. prostacyclin
C. plasmin
D. calcium
E. plasminogen
C. plasmin
- Extrinsic blood coagulation pathway is triggered by ___.
A. factor XII (Hageman factor) activated by exposure to collagen
B. heparin
C. tissue plasminogen activator
D. tissue thromboplastin
E. Ca2+ ions
D. tissue thromboplastin
- Hemophilia results from ___.
A. deficiency of platelets
B. inadequate hemoglobin production
C. vitamin B12 deficiency
D. inability to produce one of the factors in the coagulation cascade
E. excess production of heparin
D. inability to produce one of the factors in the coagulation cascade
What is hemophilia?
Excessive bleeding
- Prostacyclin ___ .
A. activates blood clotting cascade
B. induces vasoconstriction of an injured vessel
C. inhibits platelet activation and aggregation
D. is released by activated platelets
E. dissolves blood clot
C. inhibits platelet activation and aggregation
- A patient visited a dental office to have tooth #19 extracted. The extraction proceeded as planned and the patiet was sent home. Three weeks later, the patient was back in the office complaining of pain. Upon oral examination, the tissue had healed properly and there appeared to be no visible damage or inflammation. What is the best classification of the patient’s pain?
A. physiological pain
B. clinical pain
C. persistent pain
D. This patient must be lying about the pain as the tissue had healed.
C. persistent pain
- Which type of anemia is caused by a genetic abnormality? (SELECT ALL CORRECT ANSWER(S).)
A. pernicious
B. hemorrhagic
C. sickle-cell
D. thalassemia
E. polycythemia
B. hemorrhagic
C. sickle-cell
What is physiological pain?
sharp localized pain
fast pain (A delta fiber)
slow pain (C fiber)
What is clinical pain?
Inflammatory pain
What is persistent pain?
Chronic
Difficult to localize
Often leads to behavior that diminish quality of life
- Facial pain is transmitted to the spinal nucleus of what cranial nerve?
A. CN V
B. CN VII
C. CN IX
D. CN X
A. CN V
for orofacial pain
- Question 1 of 2: An insect bite caused inflammation and pain on the leg of a young adult. At the site of the bite, an increase of what chemical contributes to the clinical pain?
A. prostaglandins
B. substance P
C. tetrodotoxin
A. prostaglandins
What are prostaglandins?
Released during inflammation
During clinical pain
- Question 2 of 2: An insect bite caused inflammation and pain on the leg of a young adult. On the projection neuron, what receptor(s) would be activated?
A. AMPA only
B. NMDA only
C. NMDA and AMPA
D. None of the above. These receptors are not found on projection neurons
C. NMDA and AMPA
- The receptive fields for visceral referred pain are ___. Thus, it is generally __ to pinpoint the exact location of the pain.
A. large ; difficult
B. large ; easy
C. small ; difficult
D. small ; easy
A. large ; difficult
- Placing an object of extremely low temperature on a tooth will stimulate ___.
A. thermoreceptors on C fibers
B. mechanoreceptors on C fibers
C. chemoreceptors on C fibers
D. thermoreceptors on A-delta fibers
E. mechanoreceptors on A-delta fibers
F. chemoreceptors on A-delta fibers
D. thermoreceptors on A-delta fibers
- It was recently reported that menthol in e-cigarettes can cause inhibition of pulmonary surfactant. If this effect of menthol was clinically and physiologically significant and affected no other aspect of respiration, how would menthol affect compliance and elastic recoil of the lungs? It would ___ compliance and ___ elastic recoil.
A. increase, increase
B. increase, decrease
C. decrease, increase
D. decrease, decrease
C. decrease, increase
- Where does gas exchange during respiration occur? (ANSWER CHOICES: A-H.)
A. mouth
B. nasal passages
C. larynx
D. trachea
E. bronchus
F. bronchiole
G. alveoli
H. Two or more of the above is correct.
G. alveoli
Decreasing surfactant will ___________ (increase/decrease) compliance and ____________ elastic recoil.
DECREASE
INCREASE
What is compliance?
Inhalation
What is elastic recoil?
Exhalation
- After sitting on a chair for three hours, you immediately stood up and started jumping for ten minutes. At the end of ten minutes, which of your respiratory volumes have decreased? (SELECT ALL CORRECT ANSWERS.)
A. tidal volume
B. inspiratory reserve volume
C. expiratory reserve volume
D. vital capacity
E. residual volume
B. inspiratory reserve volume
C. expiratory reserve volume
During exercise, does tidal volume increase or decrease?
INCREASE
What is tidal volume?
Amount of air you breath in and out during a normal breath
What is inspiratory reserve volume?
The amount of air you can inhale after ALREADY taking in a breath
- What factor increases during an asthma attack? Comparisons are to normal breathing.
A. air flow rate
B. intrapleural pressure
C. radius of the airways
D. rate of gas exchange
E. None of the above. They either decrease or remains relatively similar
E. None of the above. They either decrease or remains relatively similar
What is expiratory reserve volume?
The amount of air you can exhale after ALREADY exhaling once
- Statement 1: The ventilation perfusion ratio is equal in all regions of the lungs. Statement 2: The alveoli in one region of the lungs has a low partial pressure of oxygen. This will cause blood vessels suppling this region of the lungs to vasoconstrict. Statement 1 is ___. Statement 2 is ___.
A. true, true
B. true, false
C. false, true
D. false, false
C. false, true
- Statement 1: During inhalation, the air that first reaches the alveoli is air from the anatomic dead space. Statement 2: Air in the anatomic dead space participates in gas exchange. Statement 1 is ___. Statement 2 is ___.
A. true, true
B. true, false
C. false, true
D. false, false
B. true, false
What is vital capacity?
The total amount of air that can move in and out of your lungs
(from inspiratory reserve volume –> expiratory reserve volume)
What is residual volume?
Remaining air left in lungs after you completely/forcefully exhale
NOT ALL AIR LEAVES THE LUNGS EVEN WHEN YOU COMPLETELY FORCE AIR OUT
What is left is called residual volume
- Compared to blood that had gas exchange with the lungs, the blood that had gas exchange with the tissues will have lower ___. (SELECT ALL CORRECT ANSWER(S).)
A. partial pressure of oxygen
B. partial pressure of carbon dioxide
C. number of oxygen molecules bound to hemoglobin
D. diffusion coefficient of oxygen
A. partial pressure of oxygen
C. number of oxygen molecules bound to hemoglobin
- Respiratory chemoreceptors in the carotid body and medulla aid in respiratory control. Which statement incorrectly compares the chemoreceptors from these two regions?
A. Both chemoreceptors are sensitive to changes in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in blood.
B. Both chemoreceptors are activated when the concentration of protons (H+) significantly increases in blood.
C. Only the receptors in the carotid body are sensitive to changes in blood pH that are not related to respiration.
D. All statements are correct.
B. Both chemoreceptors are activated when the concentration of protons (H+) significantly increases in blood.
- The ventral respiratory group is located in the ___ and contains ___ neurons.
A. pons, inspiratory
B. pons, expiratory
C. pons, inspiratory and expiratory
D. medulla, inspiratory
E. medulla, expiratory
F. medulla, inspiratory and expiratory
F. medulla, inspiratory and expiratory
Which respiratory chemoreceptor is proton-dependent?
CAROTID BODY
What are respiratory chemoreceptors in the medulla called?
CENTRAL CHEMORECEPTOR
Respiratory chemoreceptors in the medulla are sensitive to what and why?
CO2
only thing that can diffuse across BBB
NOT H+ SENSITIVE BC CHARGED ION CAN NOT GET ACROSS BBB
For respiratory chemoreceptors in the carotid body, when the H+ levels are ________ (high/low), activity is ________ (high/low).
high/high
OR
low/low
Which respiratory chemoreceptor(s) is/are sensitive to pH changes that are not directly related to respiration?
Carotid bodies
- Pick the two TRUE statements. (Pick TWO correct answers.)
A. During mid-inspiration, the intra-alveolar pressure is less than the atmospheric pressure.
B. During mid-inspiration, the intra-alveolar pressure is greater than the atmospheric pressure.
C. The intra-alveolar pressure equals the atmospheric pressure at the end of inspiration and end of expiration.
D. The intra-alveolar pressure equals the atmospheric pressure at mid-inspiration and mid-expiration.
E. The intra-alveolar pressure never equals the atmospheric pressure.
A. During mid-inspiration, the intra-alveolar pressure is less than the atmospheric pressure.
C. The intra-alveolar pressure equals the atmospheric pressure at the end of inspiration and end of expiration.
- Which of the following does not promote platelet aggregation?
A. thromboxane
B. collagen
C. ADP
D. nitric oxide
E. thrombin
D. nitric oxide
- What process or pathway provides the fastest mechanism for blood clot formation?
A. the intrinsic pathway
B. the extrinsic pathway
C. platelet aggregation
D. erythrocyte agglutination
E. vasoconstriction
B. the extrinsic pathway
What does not promote platelet aggregation?
Prostacyclin and Nitric Oxide
What dissolves the blood clot?
PLASMIN
- How does the physiology of blood change if calcium was removed?
A. causes erythrocytes to be malformed
B. causes leukocytes to be malformed
C. prevents oxygen transport
D. prevents blood coagulation
E. two of the above are correct
D. prevents blood coagulation
- What is the main function of plasma albumins?
A. contribute to the blood clotting process
B. function in the body’s defense
C. maintain the blood colloid osmotic (oncotic) pressure
D. are involved in pH regulation of blood
E. help in transport of carbon dioxide
C. maintain the blood colloid osmotic (oncotic) pressure
- Optometrist applied an eye drop to dilate the pupil of the patient during an eye exam. The medication most likely __.
A. activates the nicotinic receptors
B. blocks the beta-1 adrenergic receptors
C. blocks the muscarinic receptors
D. blocks the alpha-1 adrenergic receptors
C. blocks the muscarinic receptors
- What slowly dissolves blood clots?
A. thrombin
B. prostacyclin
C. plasmin
D. calcium
E. plasminogen
C. plasmin