Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2014
A patient takes cholagogues. What other process besides biliary excretion will be stimulated?
Answer options
- Intestinal motility
- Water absorption
- Pancreatic juice secretion
- Gastric motor activity
- Gastric juice secretion
Correct answer
Intestinal motility
Explanation
A patient takes cholagogues. What other process besides biliary excretion will be stimulated?Cholagogues is a medicinal agent that promotes the discharge of bile. Bile works in the small intestine. So it will make sense for cholagogues to work due to intestinal mobility.
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