Edited by
Bharti Mackness
Mike Mackness
Michael Aviram
György Paragh
2008
Research into the paraoxonase (PON) multigene family has blossomed in the last 10 years. Before this time only PON1 was known and research was restricted to toxicologists investigating the metabolism of organophosphate insecticides and nerve gases and a few scientists searching for “natural” substrates.