Types of Non-competitive Antagonism
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Which type of non-competitive antagonism involves covalent binding with the receptors?

  • Reversible antagonism
  • Competitive antagonism
  • Irreversible antagonism (correct)
  • Functional antagonism

Which type of non-competitive antagonism is usually of short duration?

  • Reversible antagonism (correct)
  • Irreversible antagonism
  • Competitive antagonism
  • Functional antagonism

What is an example of functional antagonism mentioned in the text?

  • Phenoxybenzamine on α-adrenergic receptors
  • Epinephrine to histamine (correct)
  • Nicotine in large dose
  • Cocaine on dopamine receptors

What is an example of a drug causing reversible non-competitive antagonism?

<p>Nicotine in large dose (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is potentiation in pharmacology?

<p>One drug with no effect increases the action of another drug by interfering with its biotransformation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the additive effect (summation) of two drugs with the same effect?

<p>The combined effect is the sum of the individual action (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What characterizes synergism in pharmacology?

<p>The effect of two drugs with the same effect is greater than the additive effect (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the characteristic of a drug designated as cumulative?

<p>Slow elimination and/or detoxification (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How can toxicity from a cumulative drug be avoided?

<p>By decreasing the dose (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is tolerance to a drug?

<p>Decrease or failed response to the usual therapeutic dose (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What characterizes congenital tolerance?

<p>Existing from birth (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What may contribute to individual tolerance within any population?

<p>&quot;Biological variation i.e. individual tolerance within any population&quot; (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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