Low plasma albumin causes edema as a result of a reduction in which pressure?

•             Low plasma albumin causes edema as a result of a reduction in which pressure?

Capillary hydrostatic

Interstitial hydrostatic

Plasma oncotic

Interstitial oncotic

•             An increase of carbon dioxide in arterial blood causes chemoreceptors to stimulate the respiratory centers to:

decrease respiratory rate.          

increase respiratory rate.

develophypocapnia.

develophypercapnia

•             What is an example of compensatory hyperplasia?

Hepatic cells increase cell division after part of the liver is excised.

Skeletal muscle cells atrophy as a result of paralysis.

The heart muscle enlarges as a result of hypertension.

The size of the uterus increases during pregnancy.

•             Bacteria that produce endotoxins that stimulate the release of inflammatory mediators that produce fever are called

pyrogenic bacteria.

true bacteria.

exotoxins.

spirochetes.

•             Which NSAID is generally considered the safest for use in patients with coronary artery disease?

Celecoxib           

Indomethacin

Naproxen

Acetaminophen

Cell wall inhibitors include all of the following except

penicillins.

cephalosporins.

carbapenems.

tetracylclines.

•             In the immediate postnatal period, infants lose approximately 5% of body weight due to

loss of body water

inability of the body to digest nutrients

hemolysis of red blood cells

poor sucking reflex

•Heparin exerts its therapeutic action by:

upregulating the activity of one of the body’s natural anticoagulant molecules, antithrombin III.

deactivating calcium-dependent clotting factors.

inducingprothrombin formation.

inducing the formation of fibrin.

•             Pulmonary hypertension:

shows an enlarged pulmonary artery.

involves deep vein thrombosis.

shows right ventricular hypertrophy.

Shows an enlarged pulmonary artery and right ventricular hypertrophy.

•             Which of the following factors do not influence bioavailability?

First-pass hepatic metabolism

Solubility of the drug

Bioequivalence

Chemical instability