{"id":1047,"date":"2022-08-21T20:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/drug-targeting\/?page_id=1047"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T08:39:30","slug":"transporters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/drug-targeting\/transporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Transporters under Our Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Endogenous solute carriers (SLCs) and ATP-binding cassette (ABC) proteins transport essential substrates, such as nutrients, hormones, neurotransmitters, metabolites, and drugs across the cell membranes and therefore, have a crucial role in substances\u2019 distribution and disposition in the body. These transporters can also be utilized to enhance drug delivery and target drugs to specific organs, cells or cell organelles. Moreover, if transporter function or expression can be modulated in specific cells, the drug efficacy and safety could be greatly improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are currently studying many transporters, how they could be utilized for targeted and improved drug delivery purposes. 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These transporters can also be utilized to enhance drug delivery and target drugs to specific organs, cells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1047","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Transporters under Our Investigation - Drug targeting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/drug-targeting\/transporters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Transporters under Our Investigation - Drug targeting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Endogenous solute carriers (SLCs) and ATP-binding cassette (ABC) proteins transport essential substrates, such as nutrients, hormones, neurotransmitters, metabolites, and drugs across the cell membranes and therefore, have a crucial role in substances\u2019 distribution and disposition in the body. 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