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neurodegenerative disease drugs - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 11 times
- The average score is 17 of 34
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| what is Parkinson's disease characterised by? | insidious onset, with slowing of voluntary movement, muscular rigidity, postural abnormality & tremors | 100%
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| what are the 3 distinguishing features of Alzheimer's disease? | accumulation of senile plaques (b-amyloid accumulations) | 75%
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| formation of numerous neurofibrillary tangles | 75%
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| what are examples of each? | levodopa | 75%
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| what are the drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease? | acetylcholinesterase inhibitors | 63%
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| allosterically binding to GABAA receptors on post- synaptic neurons | 63%
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| amantadine | 63%
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| what is an example of a motor neuron disease? | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) etc | 63%
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| carbidopa | 63%
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| what is an example of each? | donepezil, rivastigmine, etc | 63%
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| what drugs do we use to treat Parkinson's? | dopamine precursors | 63%
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| dopamine receptor agonists | 63%
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| loss of cortical neurons (especially cholinergic neurons) | 63%
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| what are the physical effects of motor neuron disease? | loss of motor neurons and muscle control until the patient can no longer eat, speak, move or breathe, with respiratory failure being the usual cause of death | 63%
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| memantine | 63%
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| what is the mechanism of action of each? | metabolic precursor of dopamine, that is converted to dopamine by aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) | 63%
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| what is Parkinson's disease caused by? | the striatal deficiency of dopamine following neuronal degeneration within the substantia nigra | 63%
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| benzatropine | 50%
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| what are the mechanisms of action of the first drug thought to be? | binding to glutamate receptors to reduce the release of glutamate | 50%
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| inhibitors of dopamine metabolism | 50%
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| NMDA receptor antagonists | 50%
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| preferentially blocking TTX-sensitive sodium channels, which are linked to neuronal damage | 50%
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| what are the drugs indicated specifically for motor neuron disease? | riluzole, baclofen, edaravone, tizanidine | 50%
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| uncompetitive antagonists at glutamatergic NMDA receptors | 50%
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| what is motor neuron disease? | a group of related neurodegenerative diseases that affect motor neurons and therefore voluntary muscle control | 38%
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| antimuscarinic drugs | 38%
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| bromocriptine, pramipexole, etc | 38%
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| what is the mechanism of action of each? | preferentially inhibits acetylcholinesterase (AchE) in the CNS over peripheral enzymes | 38%
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| what does pharmacological treatment aim to do for Parkinson's? | restore dopamine levels in basal ganglia | 38%
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| inhibits AADC in peripheral tissues to increase availability of levodopa in the CNS by allowing more to cross the BBB before being converted to dopamine | 25%
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| selectively blocks activity at the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor, reducing cholinergic activity in the basal ganglia and restoring the ‘balance’ of acetylcholine and dopamine | 25%
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| unknown, but thought to weakly inhibit the NMDA and nicotine receptors, as well as activate dopamine receptors | 13%
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| agonists at dopamine D2 receptors, working to restore dopamine signalling in the striatum | 0%
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| reduce the excitatory effect of acetylcholine | 0%
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