Respiratory Quiz - Module 3
9 Questions
| Total Attempts: 132
Questions and Answers
- 1.All patients with asthma have allergy or atopy
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.The underlying pathological process behind chronic asthma is airway spasm
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Allergies are mediated via IgG antibodies stuck onto mast cells and basophils
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Leukotrienes are pre-formed chemical mediators derived from arachidonic acid that are released immediately from mast cell granules.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Histamine is a pre-formed chemical mediators that is released immediately from mast cell granules.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Interleukins control and exacerbate allergic inflammation
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.The sympathetic nervous system is under voluntary control, but the parasympathetic nervous system is not
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.The sympathetic nervous sytsem works through adrenaline on the B2 receptors to cause airway relaxation
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.The parasympathetic nervous system works through acetylcholine on the cholinergic receptors to cause airway relaxation
- A.
True
- B.
False
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