Normal Growth and Development
Pediatrics · Topic 1
Source: NMC CBME Curriculum 2024 · Volume II · Pediatrics · Topic 1 · combined PDF page 329
Practice questions
- Which best describes the role of retinoic acid receptors in normal development?
- A researcher is studying how retinoic acid can produce different developmental effects in different tissues. Which finding from the review most directly supports this diversity?
- In the retinoic acid signaling review, what is the proposed role of intracellular retinol- and retinoic-acid-binding proteins?
- Which statement about retinoic acid response elements is most consistent with the review?
- Which pairing of androgen receptor domain and function is correct?
- A question asks which androgen receptor functions are controlled by domains distinct from the hormone- and DNA-binding regions. Which response best reflects the review?
- Which statement about mutations reported in androgen insensitivity is supported by the review?
- A child has excess adiposity together with diminished muscle mass. Which term best matches the phenotype described in the pediatric skeletal-development review?
- Which set of mechanisms is proposed in the review as linking sarcopenic obesity with impaired bone formation in children?
- A review of early-life stress describes which brain-region pattern among its reported neurobiological effects?
- A caregiver asks whether the effects of early-life stress on development are necessarily unmodifiable. Which response best reflects the review?
- Which conclusion about rapid weight reduction in wrestlers is supported by the ACSM position stand?
- In a small study of girls with premature breast development, which interpretation of reported factors such as BMI, vitamin D, and IGFBP-3 is most appropriate?
- Which group of measures was identified in the premature-breast-development study as relevant to monitoring possible progression to idiopathic central precocious puberty?