ABSITE Questions with Correct Answers

ABSITE Questions with Correct Answers 2 weeks after a whipple operation, your patient continues to have early satiety with oral intake. You decide to start metoglopramide (Reglan) and erythromycin. What receptor does erythromycin bind to increase gastrointestinal motility? - Correct Answer Motilin (found primarily in the stomach, duodenum, and colon) Proteins are synthesized from: a. mRNA b. tRNA c. dsDNA d. ssDNA - Correct Answer mRNA 1 week after an APR, our patient develops urosepsis requiring volume resuscitation, antibiotics, and moderate amounts of levophed and vasopressin. E. coli grows out from the blood cultures. What portion of the lipopolysaccharide complex accounts for its toxicity - Correct Answer Lipid A (with gram negative sepsis; stimulator of TNFα) Steroid hormones: a. Bind a receptor on the plasma membrane and activate a plasma membrane enzyme b. Bind a cytoplasmic receptor, enter the nucleus, and affect transcription of proteins c. Bind a receptor in the nucleus and affect transcription of proteins d. Do not enter the cell - Correct Answer (b) Bind a receptor in the cell cytoplasm, enter the nucleus as a steroid-receptor complex, and affect transcription of proteins 4 days after an Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy, you decide to start enteral tube feeding through a J-tube. The long chain fatty acids contained in the tube feeds: a. Enter the circulation via the portal system b. Enter the circulation via lymphatics c. Are onl