THE development of resistance to 5-fluorouracil (FU) in Ehrlich ascites carcin-oma (EAC) cells has been accompanied by decreases in the activities of uridine kinase (Reichard et al., 1962) or of uridine phosphorylase and deoxyuridine phos-phorylase (Reichard, Skold and Klein, 1959). These enzymes of the " uracil pathway " of pyrimidine biosynthesis are involved in the conversion of FU to its ac...