Conventional cancer treatments have many modalities, all directed at killing tumor cells or preventing their proliferation. The most common approach is chemotherapy, which is not selective toward tumor cells, but damaging to normal cells too. Immunosuppression is a major drawback of chemotherapy (Hersh and Freiriech, 1968). Cyclophosphamide (CTX) is a cytotoxic alkylating drug with a high thera...

Allergic rhinitis is an IgE-mediated inflammatory reaction of the nasal mucous membrane, which, depending on the causative allergens that are inhaled, occurs either perennially or seasonally. Seasonal allergic rhinitis and its special form pollinosis, otherwise known as hay fever, affects roughly 25 per cent of the population. It therefore ranks amongst the most common allergic conditions, the ...