Pharmacology Chapter 1 Revision: Key One-Liner Questions for Pharmacist Exams

📅 June 9, 2023654 views ✍️ Diksha Bhatla

This guide provides concise, exam-focused one-liner questions from Pharmacology Chapter 1 to help pharmacy students prepare for their Pharmacist Exams. Covering essential topics and drug-related concepts, these quick revision points are ideal for last-minute prep, ensuring you grasp the fundamentals for your exams. Perfect for students aiming for quick recall of key pharmacological principles.

Q1. Continued substance use despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent psychological, or physical problem that is caused or exacerbated by use of the substance

Answer: Addiction

Q2. A ligand that binds to a receptor and alters the receptor state resulting in a biological response.

Answer: Agonist

Q3. A partial agonist is an agonist that produces a maximal response that is less than the maximal response produced by another agonist acting at the same receptors on the same tissue.

Answer: Partial Agonist

Q4. A full agonist is an agonist that produces the largest maximal response of any known agonist that acts on the same receptor.

Answer: Full Agonist

Q5. An inverse agonist is a ligand that by binding to a receptor reduces the fraction of receptors in an active conformation, thereby reducing basal activity.

Answer: Inverse Agonist

Q6. The amount of change in measured output per unit change in input.

Answer: Amplification

Q7. A drug that dulls the sense of pain. It differs from an anesthetic agent in that it relieves pain without loss of consciousness.

Answer: Analgesic

Q8. A drug that causes loss of sensation.

Answer: Anesthetic

Q9. The joint effect of two or more drugs such that the combined effect is less than the sum of the effects produced by each agent separately.

Answer: Antagonism

Q10. The determination of the potency of a physical, chemical or biological agent, by means of a biological indicator

Answer: Biological Assay

Q11. The percent of dose entering the systemic circulation after administration of a given dosage form.

Answer: Bioavailability

Q12. The science and study of the ways in which the pharmaceutical formulation of administered agents can influence their pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic behaviour.

Answer: Biopharmaceutics

Q13. Chemical alteration of an agent (drug) that occurs by virtue of the sojourn of the agent in a biological system.

Answer: Biotransformation

Q14. The movement of chemicals (drugs) into, through, and out of biological organisms or their parts.

Answer: Biotranslocation

Q15. A form of experiment in which the participants are, to some degree, kept ignorant of the nature and doses of materials administered as specific parts of the experiment.

Answer: Blind Experiment

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