PROSPER JOLYOT DE CREBILLON
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A noted French dramatist; born at Dijon, Jan. 13, 1674; died in Paris, June 14, 1762. His plays include: "The Death of Brutus's Children"; "Idomeneus" (1705); "Atreus and Thyestes" (1707); "Electra" (1708); "Rhadamistus and Zenobia" (1711); "Xerxes" (1714); "Semiramis" (1717); "Pyrrhus" (1726); "Catalina" (1748); etc.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Platidiam
- An inorganic water-soluble platinum complex. After undergoing hydrolysis, it reacts DNA produce both intra interstrand crosslinks. These crosslinks appear to impair replication and transcription of DNA. The cytotoxicity cisplatin correlates with cellular arrest in G2 phase cell cycle.