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Pharmacology: Drugs Acting On Central Nervous System
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1. A patient with major depression should receive antidepressant therapy for at least
2. Pilocarpine is used in
3. Ether is widely used as a general anaesthetic in India, specially in peripheral hospitals because
4. Which of the following opioid analgesics is used as a preferred and rational antitussive agent ?
5. Which one of the following drugs has been used in ophthalmology, but causes mydriasis and cycloplegia lasting more than 24 hours?
6. Following general anaesthetic is oil at room temperature
7. The drug of choice for myoclonic epilepsy
8. Droperidol, a neuroleptic, belongs to following class of drugs.
9. Which neurotransmitter has maximum number of receptor subtypes
10. A 40-year-old patient with liver dysfunction is scheduled for a surgical procedure. Lorazepam can be used for preanesthetic sedation in this patient without concern for excessive CNS depression because the drug is
11. A patient of congestive heart failure was being treated with furosemide and digoxin. He developed urinary tract infection. Which of the following antimicrobials should not be prescribed
12. Hemicholinium modifies Ach metabolism by
13. Triam
14. Established clinical uses of this drug include enuresis and chronic pain
15. Compared with other antidepressant drugs, mirtazapine has the distinctive ability to act as an antagonist of
16. Which one of the following drugs is most often associated with hypotension caused by histamine release?
17. Normal saline
18. Local anaesthetics prevent or relieve pain by
19. A molecule that stimulates nitric oxide synthase, especially the eNOS isoform, is
20. Sodium valproate has been shown to
21. The agent that produces cycloplegia for a short time is
22. Which of the following patients is mot likely to require maintenance antidepressant therapy?
23. With chronic use in seizure states, the adverse effects of this drug include coarsening of facial features, hirsutism, gingival hyperplasia, and osteomalacia.
24. The antihypertensive drug most likely to aggravate angina pectoris is
25. The antidepressant which selectively blocks 5-hydroxytryptamine uptake is