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Formation of microparticles encapsulating a drug.
Pharmaceutics Pharmacist Competitive Exams
Q. Formation of microparticles encapsulating a drug.
Ans → microencapsulation
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Q. Insertion or grafting of a biological, living, inert, or radioactive material into the body.
Ans → implantation
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Q. Specific case of drug embedding in insoluble excipients (typically in a polymer) in order to achieve extended release.
Ans → matrix formulation
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Q. Small sterile usually polymeric matrices, pellets, or particles for insertion or implanting into the body by surgical means or by injection to help achieve sustained release.
Ans → implants
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Q. Emulsions in which the dispersed droplets are in the micron-size range.
Ans → microemulsions
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Q. Number that expresses the reduction in the numbers of a microorganism, brought about by a sterilizaion process.
Ans → inactivation factor (IF)
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Q. Reversible formation of association colloids from surfactants in nonpolar solvents leads to aggregates termed inverted (or inverse, reverse, or reversed) micelles.
Ans → inverted micelle
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Q. A Solid spherical particles of micron-size range, used as matrix dosage forms.
Ans → microsphere
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Q. Artificial spherical lipid bilayer droplet formed mainly from phospholipids having a core of water phase, small enough to form a relatively stable dispersion in aqueous media and with potential use in drug delivery.
Ans → liposome
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Q. Concentration of a drug that must be achieved in the plasma before any desired therapeutic or pharmacological effect can be obtained.
Ans → minimum effective plasma concentration
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Q. Initial, typically larger than the maintenance dose of a drug given to a patient at the start of pharmacotherapy.
Ans → loading dose
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Q. Lowest concentration of an antibacterial drug necessary to inhibit the growth of a microorganism.
Ans → minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)
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Q. Tablet, which does not contain a disintegrant and which is sucked to dissolve in the mouth to produce either a local (e.g., antiseptic) or systemic (e.g., vitamins) effect.
Ans → lozenge
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Q. Release of a drug from a dosage form that it is not immediate
Ans → modified release
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Q. Process by which food is rendered free from pathogenic, toxigenic, and spoilage organisms.
Ans → appertization
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Q. A group that is used to protect a functional group from unwanted reactions. After application the protecting group can be removed to reveal the original functional group.
Ans → protecting group
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Q. A protein complex in a photosystem, containing a pigment molecule that can undergo oxidation upon excitation by a light-harvesting pigment
Ans → reaction center
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Q. Scaffold placed into narrowed, diseased vessels (mainly coronary arteries) or a device implanted in a vessel used to help keep it open.
Ans → stent
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Q. The process wherein orbitals of similar energies are combined to form a set of equivalent ‘hybrid’ orbital.
Ans → hybridization
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Q. Defined for powders used pharmaceutically, according to particle sizes.
Ans → powder grades
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Q. The deposit of a drug in a body created by injection or by a similar mode of introduction to form a source of slow release.
Ans → depot
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Q. A a term applied to an atom or molecule having one or more free valencies.
Ans → radical
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Q. When the forward and reverse rates are equal in a chemical reaction.
Ans → equilibrium
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Q. The Process of contact and adhesion whereby particles in dispersion form larger-size clusters.
Ans → flocculation
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Q. Time required for the concentration of a reactant in a given reaction to reach a value that is the arith- metic mean of its initial and final (equilibrium) values.
Ans → half life
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Q. Method by which powder particles are compressed into a large tablet, called a slug, which is subse- quently dry-screened and compressed into a tablet.
Ans → slugging
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Q. Name the prokaryotic cell cytoplasmic structures for storing specific nutrients and other resources needed by cells
Ans → inclusions
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Q. Characteristic angle of slope formed with the horizontal by the side of a static conical mound of powder.
Ans → angle of repose
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Q. The energy needed to remove an electron from a gaseous atom.
Ans → ionization energy
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Q. A a term applied to the selective synthesis of one diastereomeric form of a compound resulting from the influence of an existing chiral centre adjacent to the developing asymmetric carbon atom.
Ans → asymmetric induction
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Q. A glycoprotein expressed only on the surface of antigen-presenting cells and involved in the presentation of foreign antigens from pathogens ingested by phagocytosis
Ans → MHC II molecule
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Q. A functional group consisting of an internal carbonyl group (C=O) bonded to two other carbon atoms
Ans → Ketones
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Q. This refers to a cytokine signal released from a cell to a receptor on a nearby cell
Ans → paracrine function
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Q. Name the compound that is increased in RBC of anemic patients to facilitate the supply of O2 to the tissues
Ans → 2,3-Bisphosphoglycerate
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Q. a term which may be applied to any asymmetric object or molecule. The property of non-identity of an object with its mirror image
Ans → chirality
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Q. Type of comparative bioavailability study designed in such a way as to take into account differences in bioavailability arising from differences between patients suffering from disease
Ans → crossover study
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Q. When a mix of liquids is separated by heating it up because one liquid boils at a different temperature than the other.
Ans → distillation
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Q. A type of endocytosis in which extracellular ligands are targeted to specific cells through their binding to specific cell surface receptors
Ans → receptor-mediated endocytosis
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Q. Characteristic angle of slope formed with the horizontal by the side of a static conical mound of powder.
Ans → angle of repose
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Q. Powder formulation in which individual doses of a powdered dosage form are separately wrapped
Ans → divided powder
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