Pharmaceutical compositions containing plant essential oils, natural or synthetic, or mixtures or derivatives thereof, for the prevention and treatment of soft tissue cancer in mammals.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a divisional of Application No. 09/455,542, filed Dec. 7, 1999 now abandoned, which claims the benefit of U.S. provisional Pat. application No. 60/111,271, filed Dec. 7, 1999, the entire disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention comprises compositions, methods and cell lines related to controlling insects. An embodiment of a composition comprises a plant essential oil and targets at least one receptor of insects chosen from tyramine receptor, Or83b olfactory receptor, and Or43a olfactory receptor, resulting in a change in the intracellular levels of cAMP, Ca2+, or both in the insects.