“…To enhance the solubilizing capability of carriers, various solubilizing and emulsifying pharmaceutical excipients, such as solubilizers, surfactants, oils and fatty acids can be incorporated into SDs (Joshi et al, 2004;Heo et al, 2005;Vasconcelos et al, 2007;Sancheti et al, 2009;Muela et al, 2010). Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) is particularly interesting for this purpose; it is a semisynthetic, nonionic cellulose ether that is widely used in coating and at controlled-release dosages (Velasco et al, 1999;Conti et al, 2007).…”