Q. Which one of the following is not an advantage of sublingual or buccal administration?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
Limited surface area
Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetic MCQs and Notes
Q. Which one of the following is the buccal route?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
Drug placed between cheek and gum
Q. Which one is the sublingual route?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
Drug placed under the tongue
Q. The passage from the stomach to the small intestine is called gastric emptying.
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
True
Q. In infants, the gastric pH is quite low.
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
False
Q. The liver is the major site of drug metabolism.
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
True
Q. What is the main role of the large intestine?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
Absorption of water and electrolytes
Q. Up to how much the microvilli in the small intestine increases the relative surface area of the small intestine?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
600 times
Q. How can we study the gastric emptying of a given drug?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
Tagging the drug with a radioisotope and scanning the stomach
Q. What is gastric emptying rate?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
The speed at which the stomach contents empty into the intestine