Functionalized dendrimers: Emerging opportunities for the application in medicine

Dendrimer chemistry is a rapidly espanding field for both fundamental studies and applications. Their unique structural features and properties make them ideally suited for use in diagnostic imaging and therapy, transfection, and drug delivery. A short overview about some fields of application in medicine was given. It was reported the binding and transport behaviour of dendrimers having urea, azobenzene, methyl orange and diamidopyridine moieties at the periphery towards pertechnetate, and the nucleotides AMP, ADP and ATP.