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Formulation in which individual doses of a granulated dosage form are separated
Pharmaceutics Pharmacist Competitive Exams
Q. Formulation in which individual doses of a granulated dosage form are separated
Ans → divided granule
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Q. An Obstacle such as coating or embedding, which acts as a factor controlling the rate of drug release.
Ans → diffusion barrier
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Q. Name a stage in the drying of solids, above which the drying rate is linear, at which the drying rate ceases to be linear, until it reaches the equilibrium moisture content.
Ans → critical moisture content
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Q. Formulation in which individual doses of a granulated dosage form are separated
Ans → divided granule
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Q. Type of comparative bioavailability study designed in such a way as to take into account differences in bioavailability arising from differences between patients suffering from disease
Ans → crossover study
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Q. Powder formulation in which individual doses of a powdered dosage form are separately wrapped
Ans → divided powder
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Q. Name term that describes a solid of regular shape and the presence of three-dimensional order on the level of atomic dimensions, for a given molecule.
Ans → crystalline
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Q. A Formulated preparation of molecules/drugs that are rarely if ever suitable for administration to patients without additives.
Ans → dosage form
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Q. Dosage form in which the active ingredient is insoluble in the carrier; includes aerosols, suspensions, emulsions , and foams
Ans → disperse system
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Q. A Biologically active substance, which when biodistributed in the body is expected to modify one or more of its functions.
Ans → drug
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Q. Solid preparation that on contact with water breaks apart by the effect of gas evolution, resulting commonly from the reaction of hydrogen carbonate with citric or tartaric acid, in order to facilitate dissolution or dispersion of the active ingredient before ingestion.
Ans → effervescent tablet
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Q. Opposite of deliquescence; the drying of a salt solution when the vapour pressure of water in the saturated solution of a substance is greater than the partial pressure of water in the ambient air.
Ans → efflorescence
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Q. Name a technological process, which consists of mixing or inclusion of the therapeutic substance with an excipient or their mixtures, typically as a matrix dosage form, in order to change the rate of release.
Ans → embedding
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Q. Sweet (often colored) dilute alcohol-based, “hydroalcoholic”, liquid used in the compounding of drugs to be taken by mouth in order to improve palatability.
Ans → elixir
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Q. The process of separating the lighter particles of a powder from the heavier ones by means of an upward-directed stream of fluid
Ans → elutriation
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Q. Name a substance that loses water to form a lower hydrate or becomes anhydrous spontaneously.
Ans → efflorescent
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Q. Microorganism that cannot synthesize its own ATP and, therefore, must rely on a host cell for energy; behaves like a parasite when inside a host cell,
Ans → obligate intracellular pathogen
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Q. Isomers that differ in the order the atoms are placed. They have the same number of atoms, just in a different order.
Ans → Constitutional Isomers
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Q. The mechanism by which regulatory T cells inhibit self-reactive immune responses in T cells that have already exited the thymus
Ans → peripheral tolerance
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Q. Molecules that have the same molecular formula and sequence of atoms yet differ in their 3-D orientation.
Ans → Stereoisomer
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Q. The mechanism for making ATP that uses the potential energy stored within an electrochemical gradient to add Pi to ADP
Ans → oxidative phosphorylation
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Q. Name a substance that loses water to form a lower hydrate or becomes anhydrous spontaneously.
Ans → efflorescent
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Q. A solid dosage form prepared to a desired shape, usually in large-scale production, by means of high pressure in a punch and die.
Ans → compressed tablet
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Q. The clones of cell produced by fusing a normal B cell with a myeloma cell that is capable of producing monoclonal antibodies indefinitely
Ans → hybridoma
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Q. Highly contagious and acute viral disease of the respiratory tract caused by the influenza virus
Ans → influenza
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Q. Solid material that exists at least in two different molecular arrangements, i.e., distinctly different crystal species.
Ans → polymorph
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Q. Science of preparation of drugs, dosage forms, and drug delivery systems taking into account the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of the drug as well as its physical and chemical properties.
Ans → pharmaceutics
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Q. Procedure for estimating the concentration or biological activity of a substance by measuring its effect on a living system compared to a standard system
Ans → bioassay
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Q. Time required to achieve the minimum effective plasma concentration following administration of the dosage form.
Ans → onset of drug action
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Q. a substance that, when added to a reaction mixture, changes (speeds up) the rate of attainment of equilibrum in the system without itself undergoing a permanent chemical change.
Ans → catalyst
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Q. The energy needed to remove an electron from a gaseous atom.
Ans → ionization energy
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Q. The fatty acid that is commonly found in the C2 of triacylglycerols is
Ans → Unsaturated fatty acid
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Q. Class of antiprotozoan drugs long used for the treatment of malaria; interferes with heme detoxification
Ans → quinolines
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Q. The amount of a specific radioactive material it takes to create a chain reaction.
Ans → critical mass
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Q. A full agonist is an agonist that produces the largest maximal response of any known agonist that acts on the same receptor.
Ans → Full Agonist
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Q. Transport of glucose from the lumen to the intestinal mucosal cells is coupled with diffusion of
Ans → Enteropeptidase
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Q. A more negative redox potential represents a greater tendency to lose
Ans → Electrons
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Q. The name of the protein that has been identified to serve as a primer for glycogen synthesis is
Ans → Glycogenin
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Q. Anti-tuberculosis drug, isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INH) leads to the deficiency of vitamin
Ans → Pyridoxine (B6)
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Q. Process in which powder particles are made to aggregate to larger particles called granules.
Ans → granulation
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Q. A formal non-ambiguous, nomenclature system for the assignment of absolute configuration of structure to chiral atoms, using the Cahn, Ingold and Prelog priority rules.
Ans → R,S convention
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Q. Surfactant (or a mixture containing one or more surfactants) having cleaning properties in dilute solutions
Ans → detergent
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Q. Name the rule that states that atoms will lose, gain, or share electrons in order to achieve a filled valence shell, to complete their octet.
Ans → Octet Rule
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Q. Name the process producing only lactic acid as a fermentation product
Ans → homolactic fermentation
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