Medical Chemistry quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Which compound do dentists give patients as laughing gas?

   Answer: Nitrous oxide

   Why: Dentist Horace Wells tried it on himself in 1844 after watching a stage demo where a volunteer hurt his knees and felt nothing.

2. 2 Medium

   Which gas made from L-arginine widens human blood vessels?

   Answer: Nitric oxide

   Why: The 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for proving this simple atmospheric gas acts as a vital cardiovascular messenger.

3. 3 Easy

   Which medicine is chemically known as acetylsalicylic acid?

   Answer: Aspirin

   Why: Aspirin permanently acetylates COX-1 inside platelets, which cannot make a replacement, so one dose blunts clotting for about 8 to 9 days.

4. 4 Medium

   What term describes an inactive drug that the body activates?

   Answer: Prodrug

   Why: About 10% of all worldwide approved commercial drugs are administered as prodrugs to improve bioavailability or reduce toxicity.

5. 5 Easy

   What lethal toxin is injected in tiny doses to reduce facial wrinkles?

   Answer: Botulinum toxin

   Why: One gram of crystalline botulinum toxin, evenly dispersed and inhaled, is estimated to kill over a million people.

6. 6 Easy

   Which diabetes hormone was the first approved recombinant DNA drug?

   Answer: Insulin

   Why: Before genetically engineered bacteria produced it in 1978, diabetic patients relied on extracts purified from millions of pig and cow pancreases.