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Some medicines are delivered in capsules or artificial vesicles to be swallowed. Would this method be best for delivering medicines that act on target protein in the plasma membrane,the mitochondria,or the cytosol?

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the cytoplasm because cytoplasmic enzymes can degrade artificial vesicles such as, for example, lipid-like vesicles. Subsequently, the drug can be delivered at specific cellular locations (including the cell membrane and mitochondria)

Step-by-step explanation:

The design and development of drug delivery systems is fundamental for the efficiency of the medicine being delivered to the body. Within the cytoplasm, there are specific lytic enzymes that degrade capsules containing medicine (e.g., lipolytic enzymes capable of degrading lipid vesicles). Within the cytoplasm, the drug is delivered to target sites (in this case, the cell membrane or mitochondria) by the activation of different molecular recognition mechanisms.

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