Biowaiver approach for biopharmaceutics classification system class 3 compound metformin hydrochloride using in silico modeling.

The dependency of metformin in vivo disposition on the rate and extent of dissolution was studied. The analysis includes the use of fundamental principles of drug input, permeability, and intestinal transit time within the framework of a compartmental absorption transit model to predict key pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters and then compare the results to clinical data. The simulations show that the maximum plasma concentration (C(max) ) and area under the curve (AUC) are not significantly affected when 100% of drug is released within 2 h of oral dosing, which was confirmed with corresponding human PK data.