Top 150+ Solved Nervous System MCQ Questions Answer

a. oleic acid

b. arachidonic acid

c. linoleic acid

d. linolenic acid

e. stearic acid

a. fat cells have extensive parasympathetic innervation

b. responsible for part of the post-prandial heat production

c. fat cells contain several droplets of fat

d. prominent between and around the scapulae of infants

e. fat cells contain many mitochondria

a. hepatic glycogenolysis precedes skeletal muscle glycogenolysis

b. blood glucose falls less in women due to greater fat stores

c. glycogen stores are exhausted after half to one day

d. blood glucose level is maintained above a level that would produce symptomatic hypoglycaemia

e. skeletal muscle contains about four times as much glycogen as the liver

a. VLDL transport cholesterol formed in liver to extrahepatic tissues

b. chylomicrons can cause post-prandial plasma to appear milky

c. LDL are taken up by macrophages

d. oestrogens increase plasma HDL levels

e. elevated IDL levels predispose to atherosclerosis

a. GH

b. PGE

c. thyroxine

d. glucagon

e. cortisol

a. increased cortisol secretion

b. starvation

c. decreased insulin secretion

d. forced immobilisation

e. increased testosterone secretion

a. it is not hormone sensitive

b. it requires heparin as a co-factor

c. it is confined to adipose tissue

d. its activity is decreased by stress

e. it clears chylomicrons and VLDL from circulation by degradation of triglyceride

a. the majority of filtered uric acid is reabsorbed in the proximal tubule

b. xanthine oxidase catalyses its synthesis

c. may be elevated in leukaemia and pre-eclampsia

d. does not undergo renal tubular secretion

e. its excretion rate can be halved by changing to a purine-free diet

a. formed following ingestion of a high fat/low carbohydrate diet

b. acetoacetate and beta-hydroxybutyrate formation leads to a metabolic acidosis

c. acetone is excreted in the urine

d. readily metabolised by the liver

e. acetone formation leads to ketotic breath

a. carries ipsilateral pain and temperature

b. ascends to the nuclei gracillis and ?????

c. receives efferents from contralateral stimuli

d. sacral efferents lie laterally

e. runs anteriorly in the cord

a. respond to compartitive temp gradient ??? skin

b. cold receptors predominate

c. warm receptors respond 30° - 100°

d. afferents carried via the dorsal column

e. warm and cold afferents carried via Ad fibre

a. rods predominate in the jovea

b. rhodopsin is the primary pigment of rods

c. lie anterior (superficial) to their neural pathway

d. colour blindness is an autosomal recessive gene

e. supplied by retinal vessels

a. miosis occurs

b. increases blood flow to the skin

c. increases thresholds in the reticular formation

d. causes erection in males

e. elevates free fatty acid levels

a. causes amylase secretion from salivary glands

b. decreases secretion from pancreatic ?????

c. relaxes the gallbladder

d. has no effect on renal arterioles

e. relaxes bronchial smooth muscle

a. post central gyrus

b. sylvian fissure

c. hippocampus

d. cingulated cortex

e. calcavine fissure