Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 medical journal

Medical journal

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 concerned with the effects of drugs on the human gastrointestinal and hepato-biliary systems, particularly with relevance to clinical practice. The journal publishes original papers concerned with all aspects of basic and clinical pharmacology

Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...

, pharmacokinetics

Pharmacokinetics

Pharmacokinetics, sometimes abbreviated as PK, is a branch of pharmacology dedicated to the determination of the fate of substances administered externally to a living organism...

, and the therapeutic use of drugs in the alimentary tract including the liver, gall bladder, and pancreas. Its editors

Editor in chief

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are R.E. Pounder and N.J. Talley.