FPGEE Foreign Pharmacy

Category - Pharmaceutical

A patient is on lovastatin. What is the biochemical pathway that is inhibited by this drug?
  1. The mevalonate pathway
  2. The hexose monophosphate shunt
  3. The eicosanoid pathway
  4. The pentose phosphate pathway
Explanation
Answer: A - Lovastatin is an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor. HMG-CoA reductase is the rate-limiting enzyme of the mevalonate (isoprenoid) pathway of cholesterol synthesis.
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