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By Noah Webster.
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Fixing; in microscopy and histology, serving to fix tissues in the structural condition and form found in life, or to fasten microscopic sections or preparations to a slide or cover glass so that they will not be disturbed either wholly or in part during washing, staining, mounting, etc.; as a n., a substance serving such purposes.
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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.