Abstract: A combined sample-assay device allows sampling and detection within an integrated device. The device is a flat plate-like body with a collection arm. The collection arm optionally folds to enter a recess that flatly supports and seats the arm. The arm may be friction held in this recess and completely enters the recess. Within the recess is a second recess that contains a reading portion and transport portion. Chemiluminescent or other light emitting chemical reagent is placed within the device and light is detected in response to the presence of a sample analyte in a fluid sample.

Abstract: Veterinarian composition for the treatment of herpes virus in animals comprising a pyrimidine nucleoside, or veterinarianically acceptable acid addition salte thereof, of the formula ##STR1## wherein A is OR.sup.3, SR.sup.3, NR.sup.3 R.sup.4 or NHacyl wherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are the same or different and are hydrogen, lower alkyl of 1 to 7 carbon atoms, aralkyl, or aryl;NHacyl is alkanoyl or aroyl amide;B is oxygen or sulfur;X is halogen, alkylsulfonyl or arylsulfonyl;Y is halogen, amino, monoalkyl- or monoaralkylamino, dialkylamino, aminomethyl, hydroxymethyl, lower alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, vinyl and substituted vinyl or ethynyl and substituted ethynyl;Z is methyne or nitrogen;R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are the same or different and are hydrogen acyl or aroyl,in a veterinarianically acceptable carrier.

Abstract: Pyrimidine nucleosides exhibiting anti-viral and anti-tumor effects have the formula ##STR1## wherein A is OR.sup.3, SR.sup.3, NR.sup.3 R.sup.4 or NHacyl wherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are the same or different and are hydrogen, lower alkyl of 1 to 7 carbon atoms, aralkyl, or aryl;NHacyl is alkanoyl or aroyl amide;B is oxygen or sulfur;X is halogen, alkylsulfonyl or arylsulfonyl;Y is halogen, amino, monoalkyl- or monoaralkylamino, dialkylamino, aminomethyl, hydroxymethyl, lower alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, vinyl and substituted vinyl or ethynyl and substituted ethynyl;Z is methyne or nitrogen;R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are the same or different and are hydrogen acyl or aroyl.

Abstract: There is provided a novel process for pyrimidine to pyrimidine transformations by the displacement of the 1,2,3-portion of a pyrimidine by a 1,3-ambident nucleophile. The novel process requires that the 1 and 3 nitrogens of the pyrimidine moiety be substituted. The novel process makes available, inter alia, novel uracils, simple methods of radioisotopically labeling pyrimidine nuclei, a simple and inexpensive method of preparing the important antiviral and antileukemic material pseudoisocytidine and its new active analog 2'-deoxypseudoisocytidine.