Abstract: Methods are provided for reducing or preventing undesirable changes in a composition over time, such as microbial growth, oxidative damage, and/or color changes. Date palm pollen or an extract thereof serves as a preservative, antimicrobial, and/or antioxidant component, thereby stabilizing the composition.

Abstract: Compositions are provided that include date palm pollen or an extract thereof. The compositions may be formulated use in methods of treatment or prophylaxis of inflammatory conditions such as adverse side effects of anti-cancer treatment or stomatitis conditions.

Abstract: Compositions are provided that include date palm pollen or an extract thereof. The compositions may be formulated for topical use in methods of treatment or prophylaxis of various skin conditions or methods to counteract the effects of skin aging.

Abstract: Compositions are provided that include date palm pollen or an extract thereof. The compositions may be formulated for topical use in methods of treatment or prophylaxis of various skin conditions or methods to counteract the effects of skin aging.

Abstract: Compositions are provided that include date palm pollen or an extract thereof. The compositions may be formulated for topical use in methods of treatment or prophylaxis of various skin conditions or methods to counteract the effects of skin aging.

Abstract: Compositions are provided that include date palm pollen or an extract thereof. The compositions may be formulated use in methods of treatment or prophylaxis of inflammatory conditions such as adverse side effects of anti-cancer treatment or stomatitis conditions.

Abstract: Compositions are provided that include date palm pollen or an extract thereof. The compositions may be formulated for topical use in methods of treatment or prophylaxis of various skin conditions or methods to counteract the effects of skin aging.

Abstract: Compositions are provided that include date palm pollen or an extract thereof. The compositions may be formulated for topical use in methods of treatment or prophylaxis of various skin conditions or methods to counteract the effects of skin aging.

Abstract: A method of delivering NO gas to a desired situs on or in the body of a sentient animal, e.g. humans, comprising combining and causing to react a soluble reducing salt, preferably ferrous sulfate, and a nitrite, preferably sodium nitrite, as reactants in the presence of moisture in situ at or adjacent such situs. Means for such delivery include compositions such as tablets, capsules, ointments, creams, lotions, and sprays containing mixtures of particles or granules of the two reactants, and transdermal patches and osmotic pumps for combining solutions of reactant or reactants in situ.

Abstract: A pulsating release composition comprising natural microspheres, such as pollen grains or spores, into which are loaded a biologically active is subsequently releasable therefrom in a predetermined location in or on a plant or animal in a series (generally 3 or more) of pulses. In one preferred embodiment, the composition comprises a group of substantially similar loaded micropheres coated with multiple barrier layers alternating with multiple active substance layers in a concentric onion-like structure, the barrier layers being slowly soluble to delay release of active substance from the underlying layer thereof until after the pulse of active substance provided by the overlying layer has subsided.

Abstract: Loaded pollen grains are disclosed which are suitable for use as delivery systems for introducing biologically active substances into or on plants and animals. Such pollen grains are suitable to deliver both small and large (macromolecules) molecules. Preferred pollen grains are those that have been defatted and then pre-treated to be free of antigenic materials and that have special surface features that facilitate their attachment to tissue surfaces, particularly to mucous membranes. The most preferred pollen grains are those that have spiny or irregular or fragmented surfaces. Also disclosed are a method of pre-treating the pollen grains to remove antigenic materials; a method of loading the pollen grains with the biologically active material; and a method of incorporating such pre-treated, loaded pollen grains into formulations or dosage forms suitable for introduction into or on a plant or animal body.