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. 2010 May;69(5):498–507. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2010.03616.x

Table 4.

Mean (SD) pharmacokinetic parameters for cimetidine in plasma and urine at steady state after dosing of cimetidine alone and concomitantly with gabapentin enacarbil

Css,max Css,min tmax t1/2 AUCss CLss/F Vd/F CLr R
Treatment n (µg ml−1) (µg ml−1) (h) (h) (µg ml−1 h) (l h−1) (l) (l h−1) (%)
400 mg cimetidine four times daily 12 2.34 0.650 2.42 2.38 8.45 47.9 165 19.9 41.7
(0.36) (0.122) (0.67) (0.34) (0.95) (5.6) (32) (4.7) (9.4)
1200 mg gabapentin enacarbil once daily with 400 mg cimetidine four times daily 12 2.26 0.641 2.42 2.74 8.36 48.5 194 17.1 35.5
(0.49) (0.149) (0.76) (0.79) (1.03) (6.0) (69) (4.1) (9.2)

AUCss, area under the concentration–time curve at steady state; CLr, renal clearance; CLss/F, apparent clearance after oral dosing at steady state; Css,max, maximum concentration at steady state; Css,min, minimum concentration at steady state; R, percentage of cimetidine dose recovered in urine in 6 h post-dose; SD, standard deviation; tmax, time to Css,max; t1/2, half-life; Vd/F, apparent volume of distribution.