When secreted due to a fatty meal, the hormone cholecystokinin promotes all of the following except:
1. contraction of gall bladder
2. increased production of hepatic bile
3. contraction of sphincter of Oddi
4. stimulation of pancreas

The region of the stomach into which the espophagus opens is called as:
1. Cardiac
2. Fundic
3. Corpus
4. Pyloric

Brunner’s glands are located in the duodenal:
1. Mucosa
2. Sub mucosa
3. Muscularis
4. Serosa

The oral cavity initiates all the following except:
1. Chemical process of digestion
2. Mechanical process of digestion
3. Deglutition
4. Peristalsis

Pancreatic lipase can be activated by:
1. Bile
2. Enterokinase
3. Secretin
4. Enterogastrone

Which of the following is not a function of adult liver?
1. Glycogen storage
2. Detoxification
3. Erythropoiesis
4. Synthesis of clotting proteins

The only exopeptidase amongst the following is:
1. Carboxypeptidase
2. Chymotrypsin
3. Trypsin
4. Elastase

Hormonal control of the secretion of digestive juices is carried out by the:
1. Secretion of the hypothalamic releasing and inhibitory factors into a portal vein
2. Synthesis of tropins by the anterior lobe of pituitary gland
3. Sympathetic division of the sutonomic nervous system via the vagus nerve
4. Local hormones produced by gastric and intestinal mucosa

Bile salts combine with fatty acids to form complexes called _____ that facilitate absorption.
1. chylomicrons
2. micelles
3. globules
4. lipoproteins

Defaecation is a/an:
1. voluntary process and is carried out by a mass peristaltic movement
2. involuntary process and is carried out by a mass peristaltic movement
3. voluntary process and is carried out by a haustration movement
4. involuntary process and is carried out by a haustration movement