UNIT-I
1. PHARMACOLOGY OF DRUGS ACTING ON RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
MCQs with Answers
01.Following drugs directly activate the respiratory center EXCEPT:
a) Bemegride
b) Caffeine
c) Aethymizole
d) Cytiton
02. The mechanism of Cytiton action is:
a) Direct activation of the respiratory center
b) The reflex mechanism
c) The mixed mechanism
d) None of the above
03. Indicate the drug belonging to antitussives of narcotic type of action:
a) Glaucine hydrochloride
b) Aethylmorphine hydrochloride
c) Tusuprex
d) Libexine
04. Tick out the drug belonging to non-narcotic antitussives:
a) Libexine
b) Tusuprex
c) Codeine
d) Aethylmorphine hydrochloride
05. Indicate the expectorant with the reflex mechanism:
a) Sodium benzoate
b) Derivatives of Ipecacucnha and Thermopsis
c) Trypsin
d) Ambroxol
06. Tick the antitussive agent with a peripheral effect:
a) Codeine
b) Tusuprex
c) Libexine
d) Glaucine hydrochloride
07. Chymotrypsin is an agent containing free sulfhydryl groups. It’s:
a) True
b) False
08. All of these drugs contain free sulfhydryl groups EXCEPT:
a) Acetylcysteine
b) Ambroxol
c) Bromhexin
d) Trypsin
09. Which of the following drugs is proteolytic enzyme?
a) Potassium iodide
b) Desoxiribonuclease
c) Carbocysteine
d) Acetylcysteine
010. All of the following drugs destroy disulfide bonds of proteoglycans, which causes depolymerization and reduction of viscosity of sputum, EXCEPT:
a) Acetylcysteine
b) Ambroxol
c) Desoxiribonuclease
d) Bromhexin
