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IGNOU MVE-02 (January 2025 – July 2025) Assignment Questions
Q.1 Briefly describe the various Sources and Routes of Drug Administration.
Q.2 What do you understand by cholinergic and anti-cholinergic agents? How do they work? Discuss the common drugs used as cholinergic agents.
Q.3 a) List the various drugs used in arrhythmia and discuss their therapeutic uses.
b) Define and classify Anaemia giving its cause.
Q.4 a) Describe the chemical use of potassium sparing diuretics and osmotic diuretics.
b) What are autacoids? List the important autacoids. Briefly discuss action of any two autacoids.
Q.5 Describe the mechanism and action of the drugs used in the treatment of cough.
Q.6 Define and give examples of Preanaesthetic medications. Differentiate between Inhalation and Intravenous anaesthetics, give examples.
Q.7 a) What are Quinolones? Describe some important quinolones with their therapeutic uses.
b) Briefly describe antifungal agents.
Q.8 a) Discuss the sign and symptoms of methyl alcohol poisoning? What is the treatment for this poisoning?
b) Explain the mechanism of drug antagonism and synergism with examples.
Q.9 a) What is the role of Pituitary gland in the body?
b) What are micronutrients? Discuss their therapeutic role.
Q.10 Write short notes on the following:
a) Laxatives
b) Antidiarrhoel agents
IGNOU MVE-02 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Name the different routes of drug administration. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of parenteral routes of drug administration?
2. a) What are the factors which can modify the drug action? Discuss these factors in brief.
b) Briefly discuss the factors affecting drug metabolism.
3. a) What is a acetylcholine? Discuss its effects in our body system.
b) Give at least five therapeutic uses of a tropine.
4. What are Cardiac Glycosides? Give their effect on heart and their therapeutic uses.
5. Give the mechanism of blood coagulation. Discuss the role of vitamin K in coagulation.
6. a) Name the important diuretics. Discuss the mechanism of diuretic actions of any one of them.
b) Discuss the important uses of prostaglandins.
7. a) Name the drugs used for the treatment of bronchial asthama.
b) How do the centrally action muscle relaxants work? Give example of at least three muscle relaxants.
8. a) Describe the four generations of cephalosporins. Give their therapeutic uses.
b) Write briefly about antifungal agents.
9. a) How do hormonal contraceptives work? Discuss different types of oral contraceptives which are commonly in use.
b) Discuss the commonly used chelating agents along with their therapeutic uses.
10. a) Describe briefly the pharmacodynamic interactions.
b) Name the essential micronutrients. Discuss their roles in our body system.
IGNOU MVE-02 (January 2024 – July 2024) Assignment Questions
Answer all the questions given below.
1. a) What are alkaloids? Name some important alkaloids used as drugs. Give also their natural sources.
b) Discuss any five factors which modify drug action.
2. b) What is anemia? Briefly discuss its types.
3. a) Explain the diuretic actions of benzothiazides and carbonic anhydrase inhibitors.
b) Discuss the important therapeutic uses of first generation antihistaminics.
4. a) What are the factors which responsible for the production of cough?
b) Write five therapeutic uses of prostaglandins.
5. Write therapeutic uses of peripherally acting skeletal muscle relaxants.
6. Discuss the drugs used for CNS stimulation. Explain mechanisms of action for any two drugs.
7. a) Classify the chemotherapeutic agents in a broad manner.
b) What are -lactamase inhibitors? Write its mechanism of action.
8. Describe the various drugs used in the fungal infections.
9. List various chelating agents. Discuss their therapeutic uses.
10. a) What are the diseases caused by the deficiency of Vitamin A, Vitamin C and Vitamin D? Write the main natural source of these vitamins.
b) What are trace elements? Discuss their therapeutic uses.
