Drugs Acting on the Digestive System Quiz 1

1. Antacids administered concurrently reduce efficacy
of the following anti-peptic ulcer drug

2. Metoclopramide blocks apomorphine induced vomiting, produces muscle dystonias and increases prolactin release indicates that it has:

3. Which prokinetic drug(s) produce(s) extrapyramidal
side effects:

4. The following antiulcer drug does not act by reducing
the secretion of or neutralizing gastric acid:

5. The following is true of aluminium hydroxide gel
except:

6. The most important drawback of sucralfate in the
treatment of duodenal ulcer is:

7. Eradication of H.pylori along with gastric antisecretory drugs affords the following benefit(s):

8. Antacid combinations of magnesium and aluminium
salts are superior to single component preparations
because:

9. Metoclopramide has the following actions except:

10. The most dependable emetic used to expel ingested
poisons is:

11. In peptic ulcer, antacids are now primarily used for:

12. Choose the correct statement about colloidal bismuth
subcitrate:

13. Select the prokinetic-antiemetic drug which at relatively higher doses blocks both dopamine D2 as well
as 5-HT3 receptors and enhances acetylcholine
release from myenteric neurones:

14. Choose the phenothiazine compound which has selective labyrinthine suppressant action, is used for
vomiting and vertigo, but not in schizophrenia:

15. Activation of the following type of receptors present
on myenteric neurones by metoclopramide is primarily
responsible for enhanced acetylcholine release
improving gastric motility:

16. The preferred regimen for preventing duodenal ulcer
relapse is:

17. Sucralfate promotes healing of duodenal ulcer by:

18. The following is true of anti-H.pylori therapy except:

19. Choose the correct statement about magaldrate:

20. The drugs employed for anti-H.pylori therapy include
the following except: