Abstract: A mattress cover including a substantially rectangular piece of material including a top center portion for fitting upon a top surface of a mattress, and a peripheral skirt portion including two end panels and two side panels, wherein the respective end panels and side panels may be attached together at each corner for fitting over corresponding sides and ends of the mattress, corner panels attached to a bottom portion of each corner formed from the respective attached end panels and side panels, wherein the corner panels may be substantially parallel to the top center portion, and one or more elastic bands attached around a bottom periphery of an inside edge of the skirt portion and corner panels.

Abstract: Methods of stimulating a local immune response in selected cells or tissues employing immunopotentiating oligonucleotide analogs having at least one phosphorothioate internucleotide bond are provided. Methods of enhancing the efficacy of a therapeutic treatment by stimulating a local immune response in selected cells or tissues employing oligonucleotide analogs having at least one phosphorothioate bond are also provided. The oligonucleotide analogs may have antisense efficacy in addition to immunopotentiating activity. Methods of modulating cytokine release in skin cells and immunopotentiators which include oligonucleotide analogs having at least one phosphorothioate bond capable of eliciting a local inflammatory response are also provided.