“… ( a ) Predicted plasma concentrations of metformin following different dosage of human. ( b ) Predicted (line) and observed (point) relationship between metformin dose and dose/AUC for different dose; shaded area, 0.5–2.0 folds of prediction; observations were cited from [ 13 , 15 , 16 , 19 , 20 , 27 , 68 , 69 , 84 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 107 , 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 ]. ( c ) Visual predictive checks (VPCs) of metformin plasma concentrations to time in 500 mg oral administration for human; solid line, the 50th percentiles; dashed lines, the 5 and 95th percentiles of the simulated populations; the shaded area, 90% confidence intervals of the simulated concentrations of the 5, 50 and 95th percentiles; and the point, observations, which were cited from [ 27 , 69 , 91 , 93 , 97 , 114 ].…”