HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ
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A very eminent Polish novelist; born at Vola Okrzejska, 1846. His works comprise: "No Man Is a Prophet in his Own Country" (1872); "Hania"; "Charcoal Sketches"; "Village Tales"; "Yanko the Musician"; "With Fire and Sword" (1884), "The Deluge" (1886), "Pan Michael" (1888), - a grand trilogy of historical novels: "Without Dogma" (1890); "Quo Vadis" (1895), a historical novel of the time of Nero; "The Crusaders"; "Hanna"; "Comedy of Errors".
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.