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A Dutch poet (1485-1550); born at Pamele (Oudenarde). He was the acknowledged lawgiver and pattern of all the Dutch rhetoricians of his time, in his "Art of Rhetoric". He composed many plays, but only two of them were published: one of these is the "Story of Pyramus and Thisbe". He wrote also "Ballads" and a volume of "Various Lays", in melodious verse.
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.