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Select the correct statement from the ones given below

  • Barbiturates, when given to criminals, make them tell the truth

  • Morphine is often given to person who has undergone surgery as a pain killer

  • Chewing tobacco lowers blood pressure and heart rate

  • Chewing tobacco lowers blood pressure and heart rate


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Morphine is often given to person who has undergone surgery as a pain killer

Serturner, a pharmacist isolated the active principle of opium in 1806 and named it morphine. Morphine is a phenanthrene opioid receptor against, its main effect is binding to and activation to micro - opioid receptors in the central nervous system. In clinical settings, morphine exerts its principal pharmacological effect on the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract. Its primary actions of therapeutic value are analgesia and sedation.

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where will you look for the sporozoites of the malarial parasite?

  • Red blood corpuscles of humans suffering from malaria

  • Spleen of infected humans

  • Salivary glands of freshly moulted female Anopheles mosquito

  • Salivary glands of freshly moulted female Anopheles mosquito


Select the correct statements with respect to diseases and immunisation

  • if due to some reason B and T - lymphocytes are damaged, the body will not produce antibodies against a pathogen

  • injection of dead/inactivated pathogens causes passive immunity

  • certain protozoans have been used to mass produce hepatitis B vaccine

  • certain protozoans have been used to mass produce hepatitis B vaccine


Which one of the following acts as a physiological barrier to the entry of microorganisms in the human body? 

  • Tears

  • Monocytes

  • Skin

  • Skin


Common cold is not cured by antibiotics because it is

  • caused by a virus

  • caused by a Gram-positive bacterium

  • caused by a Gram-negative bacterium

  • caused by a Gram-negative bacterium


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