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Paraoxonase 1 status as a risk factor for disease or exposure.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2010
Richter Rebecca J, Jarvik Gail P, Furlong Clement E
Abstract excerpt
Human paraoxonase 1 (PON1) has broad substrate specificity and has been shown to protect against exposure to some organophosphorus (OP) insecticides due to its ability to hydrolyze toxic metabolites of some organophosphorothioate insecticides. PON1 status has been shown to be important in protecting against vascular disease, presumably due to the not-as-yet fully characterized role of the three PON proteins in...
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