CHARLOTTE SMITH (TURNER)
\ʃˈɑːlət smˈɪθ tˈɜːnə], \ʃˈɑːlət smˈɪθ tˈɜːnə], \ʃ_ˈɑː_l_ə_t s_m_ˈɪ_θ__ t_ˈɜː_n_ə]\
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An English novelist; born 1749; died 1806. She wrote: "Elegiac Sonnets and Other Essays" (1784); "Emmeline; or, The Orphan of the Castle" (1788); "Ethelinde; or, the Recluse of the Lake" (1789); "Celestina: A Novel" (1791); "Desmond: A Novel" (1792); "The Old Manor-House" (1793); "The Emigrants: A Poem" (1793); "Natural History of Birds" (1807).
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.