Disease relevance of Mordenite

• Erionite and mordenite, two mineral aluminosilicates (zeolites) with different toxicities, can be used as models to help understand asbestos toxicity [1].

High impact information on Mordenite

• A theoretical study of the alkylation reaction of toluene with methanol catalyzed by acidic mordenite [2].
• No iron is typically present in erionite or mordenite, but because of their ion-exchange properties they can acquire iron after inhalation [1].
• In this study the uptake performances of the naturally occurring zeolite, clinoptilolite, and of New Zealand mordenite are compared [3].
• Aluminum species in several dealuminated zeolites (ultrastable HY, HZSM-5 and mordenite) were investigated in detail by means of the newly introduced 1H/27Al TRAPDOR method in combination with 27Al MAS NMR, and the quadrupole coupling constants (Q[CC]s) for aluminum atoms associated with these species were obtained [4].
• It is shown conclusively that mordenite can reduce the uptake of radio-caesium by goats and lambs, and also, without changing the fodder, reduce their body burden [5].

Biological context of Mordenite

• A density functional theory study of molecular and dissociative adsorption of H2 on active sites in mordenite [6].

Anatomical context of Mordenite

• The results of this study using the Chinese hamster ovary cell line AS52 demonstrated that erionite was more cytotoxic than mordenite [7].

Associations of Mordenite with other chemical compounds

• The cytotoxicity of four tumorigenic minerals: erionite(w), erionite(c), UICC crocidolite, UICC chrysotile and nontumorigenic mordenite was compared in Chinese hamster lung V79 cells [8].
• A more detailed investigation of the squaric acid aggregate within mordenite was undertaken with the use of Raman spectroscopy [9].
• A periodic density functional theory study of the alkylation of benzene with propene in proton-exchanged mordenite has been achieved [10].
• Polarization of ethane and propane resulting from adsorption of these hydrocarbons by protons and different cations in mordenite, ZSM-5, and Y zeolites was studied by diffuse reflection Fourier transform IR spectroscopy (DRIFTS) [11].
• To determine whether O2- was elicited in response to a variety of asbestiform fibres, AM lavaged from Fischer 344 rat lungs were exposed in vitro to equivalent non-toxic amounts of crocidolite asbestos, erionite, Code 100 fibreglass, sepiolite, and their non-fibrous analogues, riebeckite, mordenite and glass particles [12].

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