Essentials of Pharmacology for Health Professions 7th Edition by Ruth Woodrow,Bruce Colbert ,David Smith

Exercise 1

Forty-eight-year-old Marcus Wales has been diagnosed with new onset of Type 2 diabetes. His physician orders a low-fat, low-calorie diet. In addition to dietary changes, the physician would like to start him on an oral hypoglycemic drug. The physician starts him on glyburide, a sulfonylurea medication. He explains to Marcus that sulfonylureas work by:
A) Blocking glucose uptake into the cell
B) Increasing insulin production from the pancreas
C) Decreasing glucagon secretion
D) Promoting urinary excretion of excess glucose