GMS 6520 exam 2 questions with
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Benzodiazepines - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following drugs has CNS effects that plateau
at higher doses?
Potency - correct answer ✔✔Do benzodiazepines increase the potency and/or efficacy of GABA
toward the Gaba receptor?
Pentobarbital then diazepam
Amobarbital then chlordiazepoxide
Amobarbital then pentobarbital
Pentobarbital then Amobarbital - correct answer ✔✔Which drug combinations may involve
asymmetric metabolic cross tolerance and/or standard metabolic tolerance?
Propranolol - correct answer ✔✔Which drug could potentially be used as-needed in order to
reduce test-anxiety in extreme cases, without affecting mental function?
Flumenazil - correct answer ✔✔A patient that has been prescribed alprazolam for their severe
anxiety attempts suicide by overdosing on the drug. While we know that this is unlikely to be
fatal what drug will likely be given to the patient at the emergency room.?
diphenhydramine - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following drugs is an OTC sedative?
Barbiturates - correct answer ✔✔Which class of drugs do you expect to maintain efficacy when
applied in a transgenic mouse model in which the glutamic acid decarboxylase enzyme is
knocked out, preventing the synthesis of GABA?
, 3 - correct answer ✔✔The legal blood alcohol limit for driving most places in the US is 0.08%
(the driving is impaired that much lower levels). Based on the data table presented in the
lecture, how many 12 ounce beers would it take for a 25-year-old female to exceed that limit
assumed that they were all consumed with any short period of time making metabolism,
negligible
acetaldehyde dehydrogenase - correct answer ✔✔What enzyme catalyzes the second step in
the metabolism of ethanol?
higher - correct answer ✔✔Would you expect the concentration of dissolved CO2 to be higher
or lower than normal in the blood of a patient with a high blood alcohol content?
fatty liver disease - correct answer ✔✔Increased NADH in the liver of a chronic alcohol user
would be expected to result in what disease?
functional - correct answer ✔✔Which type of alcohol tolerance is most likely to have an effect
on brain function in the absence of alcohol?
Disulfiram - correct answer ✔✔What drug is given to alcoholics in order to make ethanol
consumption, unpleasant?
alcohol dehydrogenase - correct answer ✔✔Fomepizole prevents the formation of toxic
metabolites in patients suffering from ethylene glycol poisoning by inhibiting which enzyme?
eyes - correct answer ✔✔The primary site of damage occurring in methanol poisoning is in
which organ?
2 - correct answer ✔✔Any class of 25 female students, assuming equal distribution among the
female population, how many are likely to be currently suffering from depression?
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Benzodiazepines - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following drugs has CNS effects that plateau
at higher doses?
Potency - correct answer ✔✔Do benzodiazepines increase the potency and/or efficacy of GABA
toward the Gaba receptor?
Pentobarbital then diazepam
Amobarbital then chlordiazepoxide
Amobarbital then pentobarbital
Pentobarbital then Amobarbital - correct answer ✔✔Which drug combinations may involve
asymmetric metabolic cross tolerance and/or standard metabolic tolerance?
Propranolol - correct answer ✔✔Which drug could potentially be used as-needed in order to
reduce test-anxiety in extreme cases, without affecting mental function?
Flumenazil - correct answer ✔✔A patient that has been prescribed alprazolam for their severe
anxiety attempts suicide by overdosing on the drug. While we know that this is unlikely to be
fatal what drug will likely be given to the patient at the emergency room.?
diphenhydramine - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following drugs is an OTC sedative?
Barbiturates - correct answer ✔✔Which class of drugs do you expect to maintain efficacy when
applied in a transgenic mouse model in which the glutamic acid decarboxylase enzyme is
knocked out, preventing the synthesis of GABA?
, 3 - correct answer ✔✔The legal blood alcohol limit for driving most places in the US is 0.08%
(the driving is impaired that much lower levels). Based on the data table presented in the
lecture, how many 12 ounce beers would it take for a 25-year-old female to exceed that limit
assumed that they were all consumed with any short period of time making metabolism,
negligible
acetaldehyde dehydrogenase - correct answer ✔✔What enzyme catalyzes the second step in
the metabolism of ethanol?
higher - correct answer ✔✔Would you expect the concentration of dissolved CO2 to be higher
or lower than normal in the blood of a patient with a high blood alcohol content?
fatty liver disease - correct answer ✔✔Increased NADH in the liver of a chronic alcohol user
would be expected to result in what disease?
functional - correct answer ✔✔Which type of alcohol tolerance is most likely to have an effect
on brain function in the absence of alcohol?
Disulfiram - correct answer ✔✔What drug is given to alcoholics in order to make ethanol
consumption, unpleasant?
alcohol dehydrogenase - correct answer ✔✔Fomepizole prevents the formation of toxic
metabolites in patients suffering from ethylene glycol poisoning by inhibiting which enzyme?
eyes - correct answer ✔✔The primary site of damage occurring in methanol poisoning is in
which organ?
2 - correct answer ✔✔Any class of 25 female students, assuming equal distribution among the
female population, how many are likely to be currently suffering from depression?
