What's the nerve that pierces the parotid gland?
Facial nerve
What's the longest phase of the cardiac cycle?
Reduced filling phase
What’s the best marker used to diagnose acute myocardial infarction?
Troponins
What is the main family of drugs used in treatment of asthma?
Selective beta-2 Agonists (SABA & LABA)
What is the vector of Leishmania?
Female sand fly
The moderator band is present in which of the heart chambers?
Right ventricle
They are the enzymes that transfer hydrogen from one substrate to another, in a reversible, coupled oxidation-reduction reaction.
Dehydrogenases
What's the most common cause of minor lower GI bleeding?
Hemorrhoids
Which drugs are used as first choice in Heart failure and Renal failure?
Loop Diuretics (Frusemide)
What's the infective stage of Ancylostoma duodenale?
Third stage filariform larva
What’s the only tributary of the subclavian vein?
External jugular vein
What's the most frequent cause of sudden death in patients with myocardial infarction?
Ventricular fibrillation
What’s the most common benign vascular tumor?
Hemangioma
What’s the drug Cholestyramine mainly used to treat?
Dyslipidemia
What's the definitive host for the parasite causing Cystic Hydatidosis?
Dogs & other canines
What's the air sinus that opens in superior meatus of the nose?
Posterior ethmoid sinus
What is the enzyme responsible for insertion of iron into protoporphyrin IX in the mitochondria?
Ferrochelatase
Buerger’s disease is another name for a certain vascular disease, what is it?
Thrombangiitis obliterans
State 2 prokinetic drugs that enhance gastric motility.
Metoclopramide, Domperidone or Cisapride
Which gene of retroviruses encodes the reverse transcriptase enzyme of the virus?
The "pol" gene
What are the filaments found in smooth muscle cells?
Actin, Myosin and intermediate filaments (desmin)
What is the osmotic pressure produced by the surface tension in the alveoli? (number)
20mmHg
It’s a type of occupational pneumoconiosis found in workers exposed to cotton. What is it?
Byssinosis
What are the oral anticoagulants that directly inhibit thrombin?
Bivalirudin and Argatroban
What is the specific Serological/Immunological test used for detection of Salmonella antigens in serum?
Widal test