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2. When comparing Foetal red blood cells to maternal red blood cells, foetal
RBCs:
a. Have a greater affinity for 02
b. Stop being produced with HB F as a component after 4 months of age
c. Bind 2,3 DPG less avidly
d. Have a higher 02 content (mg/dl) at the same PO2 (mmHg)
5. All of the following statements regarding the blood brain barrier are true,
except:
a. It does not restrict the passage of lipid soluble forms of steroid
hormones, water or CO2
b. It has transporters present for choline, amino acids and thyroid
hormones
c. It contains P-glycoprotein which transports analgesics, opioid peptides
and glucose into the blood
d. It has circumventricular organs with fenestrated capillaries in or near
the brain “outside” the barrier
6. Which is true regarding cerebral circulation?
a. The principal arterial supply to the brain is via two external carotid and
two vertebrals
b. The basilar and vertebrals form the circle of Willis
c. Blood flow into the Circle of Willis is distributed almost exclusively to
the ipsilateral side.
d. Venous blood drains principally into the external jugular veins
7. Regarding CSF,
a. Volume is approx 250ml
b. 90% is formed in the choroid plexuses
c. The average normal pressure is about 50mm H2O
d. Absorption of CSF stops below a pressure of about 70mm H2O
10. Which of the following is incorrect of the blood flow in the coronary vessels?
a. Flow to subendocardial portion of the left ventricle occurs only during
systole
b. Left ventricular coronary flow is increased in tachycardia
c. Coronary flow to atria and RV are reduced during systole
d. Coronary flow is increased when aortic diastolic pressure is low
11. Which of the following causes coronary vasodilation and hence increase coronary
blood flow:
a. Increased levels of CO2, H+, K+
b. Increased lactate and prostaglandins
c. Hypoxia
d. All of the above
12. All are correct regarding neural control of the cardiovascular system EXCEPT:
a. all blood vessels contain smooth muscle and receive sympathetic motor nerve
fibers.
b. Sympathetic noradrenergic fibers end on blood vessels to mediate
vasoconstriction.
c. An increase in neural output from brain stem to sympathetic nerves leads to a
decrease in blood vessel diameter.
d. Stimulation of the vagal innervation to the heart causes a decrease in heart
rate.
13. The RVLM, a major source of excitatory input to sympathetic nerves controlling
the vasculature:
a. Has excitatory inputs from carotid baroreceptors.
b. Has been implicated in essential hypertension.
c. Is located in the pons.
d. Is not affected by hypoxia.
14. Baroreceptors:
a. are located in the intima of the vessels.
b. are stimulated by constriction of the vessels in which they are located.
c. are located in the carotid sinus and the aortic arch.
d. increased baroreceptor discharge excites the tonic discharge of sympathetic
nerves.
29. With relation to circulatory changes with exercise which of the following is not
true?
a) dilation of arterioles and pre capillary spinchters increases blood flow 10 –
100 fold
b) a marked increase in stroke volume occurs at the onset of isometric muscle
contraction
c) the average VO2 max for a healthy man is about 38ml/kg/min
d) blood mobilized from reservoirs increases the arterial blood flow by up to
30%
31. The oxygen consumption of a man during exercise is 5 litres per minute. His
arterial oxygen content is 190mls and venous concentration is 140mls/l. What is his
cardiac output?
a) 25 L/min
b) 5 L/min
c) 15 L/min
d) 10 L/min
37. Microglia :
a. are derived from macrophages
b. are involved in myelin formation in the CNS
c. are involved in myelin formation in the PNS
d. include oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells
42. The four types of retinal neurons include all of the following except:
a. Bipolar cells
b. Ganglion cells
c. Horizontal cells
d. Paracrine cells
45. ‘Near response’ of the pupil involves all of the following except
a. Refraction
b. Accommodation
c. Convergence of visual axes
d. Pupillary constriction
46. A patient presents with the following results from a hearing test:
. Weber – sound from vibrating tuning fork localised to right ear
. Schwabach – bone conduction better than normal
. Rinne – vibrations not heard in the air on the right side
Match the following test results with the correct diagnosis of deafness
49. Which of the following is incorrectly paired with regard to cardiac muscle
depolarization?
a. Initial rapid depolarization : Opening of voltage-gated sodium channels
b. Prolonged plateau : Opening of voltage-gated T-type calcium channels
c. Initial rapid repolarization : Partly due to closure of sodium channels
d. Final repolarization : Partly due to delayed increase of potassium efflux
52. The fibre type supplying sensory neurons to Golgi tendon organs are:
a. A alpha
b. A beta
c. A delta
d. Dorsal root C
56. Which of these cells produce myelin in the central nervous system?
a. Scwhann cells
b. fibrous astrocytes
c. microglial cells
d. oligodendrocytes
60. Muscle stretch leads to a direct increase in firing rate of which type of nerve?
a. alpha-motor neurons
b. gamma-motor neurons
c. Group Ia fibres
d. Group Ib fibres
61. The impulses coding for vibration sense are carried by the....
a. the dorsal columns of the spinal cord
b. the spinolaminar tract
c. the lateral columns
d. none of the above
62. Slow EPSP’s as seen in autonomic ganglia and cardiac muscles are caused by:
a) Increase in K+ conductance
b) Decrease in K+ conductance
c) Increase in Cl- transport
d) Increase in Ca conductance.
67. The conducting airways are comprised, in order, from largest to smallest:
68. Regarding the vascular structure of the pulmonary circulation which is true?
a. The path of the arteries, veins and bronchi converge at the periphery of the
lung
b. The arteries form a dense network in the walls of the alveoli
c. The output from the right ventricle is equally divided between the
pulmonary and bronchial circulation
d. Each red blood cell spends about 0.75sec in the capillary network
76. Which of the following is incorrect regarding Blood gases and pH?
a) The pCO2 is a tiny pH meter that uses a bicarbonate buffer
b) A glass electrode is used to measure the pH of whole blood
c) Hypoventilation is always associated with a raised arterial CO2
d) Ventilation-perfusion inequality always causes CO2 retention
a. Hypercapnoea
b. Hypoventilation
c. Shunt
d. Ventilation-perfusion inequality
a. Shunt refers to blood entering the arterial system after going through
ventilated lung.
b. Hypoxaemia can be abolished by giving 100% O2 to breathe.
c. The O2 concentration of end-capillary blood is usually calculated from
the alveolar PO2 and the O2 dissociation curve.
d. A shunt usually results in a raised PCO2 in arterial blood.
83. Surfactant
a. Is a glycoprotein
b. Is increased in lungs of smokers
c. Helps keep alveoli dry
d. Is produced by type 1 alveolar cells
84. Compliance
a. Is increased by pulmonary fibrosis
b. Is the volume change per unit pressure change
c. Is decreased in emphysema
d. Is greater at higher expanding pressures
86. The most important factor limiting flow rate during forced expiration is
a. Compression of the diaphragm
b. Compression of the airways
c. Constriction of bronchial smooth muscle
d. Elasticity of the chest wall
91. Regarding the central control of breathing which of the following is false?
a. The dorsal respiratory group is associated with inspiration
b. inspiratory cells are modulated by input from the vagal and accessory
nerves
c. The pneumotaxic centre inhibits inspiration
c. The exploratory centre is quiescent during normal respiration
93. With regards to the O2 dissociation curve, which of the following are correctly
paired?
a. PO2 100mmHg : sats 96%
b. PO2 75mmHg : sats 40%
c. PO2 27mmHg : sats 50%
d. PO2 97.5mmHg : sats 100%
94. Advantages to the shape of the O2 dissociation curve include all of the
following except
a. Loading of O2 is little affected if the PO2 in alveolar gas falls on the
flat upper portion of the curve
b. A large partial pressure between the alveolar gas and blood along the
capillary is greatly lessened due to the red cells taking up O2
c. The steep lower part of the curve means that peripheral tissues can
withdraw large amounts of O2 for a small drop in capillary O2
d. The maintenance of blood PO2 in c. above facilitates diffusion of O2
into tissue cells
98. Which volume remains in the lungs after a tidal volume is expired?
a. Vital capacity
b. Expiratory reserve volume
c. Residual volume
d. Functional residual capacity
99. Assuming normal tidal volumes of 500 to 600 mls, what is the normal ratio of
dead space to tidal volume (in the normal lung)?
a. 0.4-0.5
b. 0.2-0.35
c. 0.1-0.2
d. It is impossible to determine an accurate ratio
100. With regards to ventilation, which of the following is true?
a. Fowler's method measures anatomical dead space
b. Bohr's method measures anatomical dead space
c. Bohr's method measures physiological dead space
d. Both A and B are correct
104. All these drugs act on pulmonary vascular smooth muscle causing an
increase in pulmonary vascular resistance, except:
a. serotonin
b. histamine
c. norepinephrine
d. acetylcholine
106. Other than gas exchange the lung functions include all of the following
except: a. secretion of immunoglobulins such as Ig A
b. generation of phospholipids such as dipalmitoyle phosphotidylcholine
113. Diffusion in the lung can be limited by all of the following except:
a. Exercise
b. Hypoxia
c. Thickening of the blood-gas barrier
d. Low altitude
115. Using Fick’s law of diffusion through a tissue slice, if gas X is twice as soluble
and 4 times a dense as Y then the ratio of diffusion rates of X to Y will be
a. There will be no difference
b. 0.5
c. 2
d. 8
116. Examples of gases that display perfusion limited exchange in normal individuals
include all except:
a. Oxygen
b. Carbon dioxide
c. Carbon monoxide
d. Nitrous oxide
117. Which part of the nephron absorbs the greatest percentage of water in the
presence of vasopressin?
a. Proximal tubule
b. Descending loop of Henle
c. Distal tubule
d. Collecting duct
118. Which of the following is not actively involved in the micturition reflex?
a. Detrusor muscle
b. Sympathetic nervous system
c. Parasympathetic nervous system
d. External urethral sphincter
121. Regarding the nephron, the following are all correct except:
a. Renin is secreted from the juxtoglomerular cells
b. Principal cells of the collecting ducts are involved in Na reabsorption
c. Mesangial cells help regulate glomerular filtration
d. The macula densa is particularly close to the efferent arteriole
122. Tay Sach’s, a lysosomal storage disease is caused by the loss of an lysosomal
enzyme that catalyses the biodegradation of which of the following substances?
a. phosphatases
b. Collagenase
c. gangliosides
d. None of the above are true
124. 99% of the DNA in the mitochondrial genome is derived from which of the
following?
a. nuclear genes
b. from Mitochondrial DNA
c. The mitochondria do not contain a mitochondrial genome
d. none of the above are true
133. Regarding ammonia secretion, all of the following are correct except:
a. NH4+ is lipid soluble and diffuses across cell membranes down its
concentration gradient into tubular urine
b. The amount of NH4+ excreted in chronic acidosis at any given urine pH
increases
c. The process of ammonia secretion into urine is called non-ionic
diffusion
d. The ratio of NH3 to NH4+ at pH 7.0 is 1:100
136. Common sources of extra acid load include all of the following except:
a. Fruits
b. Strenuous exercise
c. Renal failure
d. Ingestion of CaCl2
138. Which of the following is not part of the acquired immune system?
a. T cells
b. Natural Killer cells
c. B cells
d. Immunoglobulins
150. Translation is
a) The process where mRNA is used as a template for protein production
b) The process of DNA replication prior to cell division
c) The process where DNA wraps around histones to form a nucleosome
d) The process in which a DNA sequence is copied into RNA for gene
expression
157. Considering metabolic energy production which reaction converts ATP to ADP,
releasing energy?
a) Oxidation
b) Reduction
c) Hydrolysis
d) Phosphorylation
159. Diffusion
a) Is an active process
b) occurs when there is a net flux of particles from low to high concentrations
c) tendency magnitude from one area to another is indirectly proportional to
the cross sectional area in which diffusion is taking place
d) means that the particles of a substance dissolved in solvent are in constant
random movement
161) Of the following cellular structures which is not involved in protein synthesis?
a) ribosomes
b) golgi apparatus
c) lysosomes
d) smooth endoplasmic reticulum
a) K+
b) Na+
c) H20
d) Albumin
167. With regards to the response to a metabolic acidosis, which of the following
are incorrectly paired?
a. Buffering: Carbonic acid is converted into H20 and CO2
b. Respiratory response: Prevents limiting pH from being reached
c. Renal response: Excess acid excreted in exchange for Na
d. Clinical features: Fall in pH and fall in pCO2
168. Which of the following statements about renal hydrogen secretion are true?
a. Hydrogen ion secretion in the PCT is independent of tubular sodium
b. ATPase driven proton pump activity is decreased by aldosterone
c. The maximal gradient against which this can occur is at a urine
pH=4.5
d. Secretion of H+ ions is mainly via the H,K ATPase pump in the DCT
and CD
171. Regarding renal cell structure and function which statement is false?
0. collecting duct P cells/ principal cells are involved in Na+ and water
reabsorption
a. glomerular filtration allows free passage of small charged substances
up to 4nm diameter
b. the juxta-glomerular apparatus contain cells that secrete renin
c. type I medullary interstitial cells secrete prostaglandins
172. All of the following agents cause relaxation of mesangial cells except:
a. ANP
b. norepinephrine
c. dopamine
d. PGE2
173. Which of the following pairs of transport proteins are matched correctly with
their location within the kidney?
a. proximal tubule
d. collecting ducts
176. Which of the following is the correct order of segments of the GI tract – from
shortest to longest:
a. Duodenum, oesophagus and stomach, colon, jejunum and ilem
b. Colon, oesophagus and stomach, duodenum, jejunum and ileum
c. Oesophagus and stomach, duodenum, colon, jejunum and ileum
d. Oesophagus and stomach, colon, duodenum, jejunum and ileum
177. Regarding motility of the GI tract, which of the following is correct:
a. If the autonomic input to the gut is removed peristaltic activity will
cease
b. Retrograde cholinergic neurons cause smooth muscle relaxation
c. The basal electrical rhythm is initiated by interstitial cells of Cajal
d. Anterograde cholinergic neurons cause smooth muscle contraction
180. Regarding motility of the small intestine and colon, which is incorrect:
a. The three types of smooth muscle contractions in the small intestine
are peristaltic waves, segmentation contractions and tonic contractions
b. Segmentation contractions are important in increasing chyme exposure
to mucosal surface
c. The colon is the only part of the GI tract where mass action contraction
occurs
d. The gastroileal reflex is when the ileocecal valve constricts in response
to food leaving the stomach
184. Which of the following does not cause an increase in plasma glucose?
a. IGF-1
b. Catecholamines
c. Growth hormone
d. Cortisol
190. Which is NOT true regarding fluid and electrolyte transport in the intestine?
a. Secondary active transport of Na is important in glucose absorption in
the small intestine
b. Sodium crosses the apical membrane in the colon via ENaC similar to
those found in kidney distal tubules
c. Cl- normally enters enterocytes via Na-K-2CL transporters
d. K+ is secreted via the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance
regulator
191. The following hormones are primarily concerned with regulation of Ca2+
metabolism EXCEPT:
a. Calcitonin
b. Parathyroid hormone
c. 1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol
d. Growth hormone
194. 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol:
a. Stimulates expression of gene products involved in calcium transport.
b. Calibindin-D proteins are found in the kidneys, heart and lungs.
c. Decreases Ca2+ absorption in the intestine.
d. Decreases the synthetic activity of osteoblasts.
195. With regards to PTH:
a. It is synthesized in the parafollicular cells of the parathyroid glands.
b. It is stimulated by low serum PO42-.
c. It causes increased reabsorption of Ca2+ in both the proximal and distal
tubules of the kidneys.
d. It acts indirectly on bone to increase bone resorption.
197. A 46 year old woman presents to your emergency department with hirsutism,
hyperglycemia, obesity, muscle wasting and increased circulating levels of ACTH.
The most likely cause of her symptoms is...?
a. Primary adrenocortical insufficiency (Addison’s disease)
b. Phaeochromocytoma
c. Primary overproduction of ACTH (Cushing’s disease)
d.Treatment with exogenous glucocorticoids
198. Selective destruction of the zona glomerulosa of the adrenal cortex would
produce a deficiency of which hormone?
a. aldosterone
b. androstenedione
c. cortisol
d. dehydroepiandrosterone