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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contraception. 2007 Apr 18;75(6):454–460. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2007.02.003

Table 2.

Mean pharmacokinetic parameters (mean ± SE) of LNG in women following a single intravaginal application of two different formulations of CARRA/LNG gels

Pharmacokinetic
parameters
Dose of LNG
0.75 mg/4 mL gel 1.5 mg/4 mL gel
Cmax (nmol/L) 14.1 ± 2.1 11.7 ± 2.7
Tmax (h) 12.0 ± 2.7 6.0 ± 0.9
AUC0-168 (nmol h/L) 540 ± 105 352 ± 85
Clearance (L/day) 136 ± 31 505 ± 183
Half life (h) 34.0 ± 3.5 29.9 ± 3.0