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Zhang ZY, Yang LT, Yue Q, Kang KJ, Li YJ, An HP, C G, Chang JP, Chen YH, Cheng JP, Dai WH, Deng Z, Fang CH, Geng XP, Gong H, Guo QJ, Guo T, Guo XY, He L, He SM, Hu JW, Huang HX, Huang TC, Jiang L, Karmakar S, Li HB, Li HY, Li JM, Li J, Li QY, Li RMJ, Li XQ, Li YL, Liang YF, Liao B, Lin FK, Lin ST, Liu JX, Liu SK, Liu YD, Liu Y, Liu YY, Ma H, Mao YC, Nie QY, Ning JH, Pan H, Qi NC, Ren J, Ruan XC, Singh MK, Sun TX, Tang CJ, Tian Y, Wang GF, Wang JZ, Wang L, Wang Q, Wang YF, Wang YX, Wong HT, Wu SY, Wu YC, Xing HY, Xu R, Xu Y, Xue T, Yan YL, Yi N, Yu CX, Yu HJ, Yue JF, Zeng M, Zeng Z, Zhang BT, Zhang FS, Zhang L, Zhang ZH, Zhao JZ, Zhao KK, Zhao MG, Zhou JF, Zhou ZY, Zhu JJ. Experimental Limits on Solar Reflected Dark Matter with a New Approach on Accelerated-Dark-Matter-Electron Analysis in Semiconductors. Phys Rev Lett 2024; 132:171001. [PMID: 38728703 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.171001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2023] [Revised: 01/22/2024] [Accepted: 03/19/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024]
Abstract
Recently a dark matter-electron (DM-electron) paradigm has drawn much attention. Models beyond the standard halo model describing DM accelerated by high energy celestial bodies are under intense examination as well. In this Letter, a velocity components analysis (VCA) method dedicated to swift analysis of accelerated DM-electron interactions via semiconductor detectors is proposed and the first HPGe detector-based accelerated DM-electron analysis is realized. Utilizing the method, the first germanium based constraint on sub-GeV solar reflected DM-electron interaction is presented with the 205.4 kg·day dataset from the CDEX-10 experiment. In the heavy mediator scenario, our result excels in the mass range of 5-15 keV/c^{2}, achieving a 3 orders of magnitude improvement comparing with previous semiconductor experiments. In the light mediator scenario, the strongest laboratory constraint for DM lighter than 0.1 MeV/c^{2} is presented. The result proves the feasibility and demonstrates the vast potential of the VCA technique in future accelerated DM-electron analyses with semiconductor detectors.
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- Z Y Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- Sino-French Institute of Nuclear and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
- Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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He XY, Zhu MM, Zheng J, Wang CY, Zhao XK, Zhang BT, Zhou DC, Zhang S, Yang XX, Duan YJ, Han JH, Chen YL. Liver X receptor agonists exert antitumor effects against hepatocellular carcinoma via inducing REPS2 expression. Acta Pharmacol Sin 2023; 44:635-646. [PMID: 35995867 PMCID: PMC9958117 DOI: 10.1038/s41401-022-00961-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
Abstract
Recent studies show that liver X receptor (LXR) agonists exert significant antitumor effects in a variety of tumor cell lines including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). But the molecular mechanisms underlying LXR antitumor activity are not fully understood. In this study we investigated the effect of LXR agonist T0901317 (T317) on HCC development and its relationship with RalA binding protein 1 (RALBP1)-associated EPS domain containing 2 (REPS2)/epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling axis. We showed that T317 (0.1-0.5 μM) dose-dependently increased REPS2 expression in normal hepatocytes (BNLCL.2 and LO2) and HCC cells (HepG2 and Huh-7). Using promoter activity assay and chromatin immunoprecipitation (CHIP) assay we demonstrated that T317 enhanced REPS2 expression at the transcriptional level via promoting the binding of LXR protein to the LXR-response element (LXRE) in the REPS2 promoter region. We showed that the inhibitory effect of T317 on the proliferation and migration of HCC cells was closely related to REPS2. Moreover, we revealed that T317 (400 nM) increased expression of REPS2 in HepG2 cells, thus inhibiting epidermal growth factor (EGF)-mediated endocytosis of EGFR as well as the downstream activation of AKT/NF-κB, p38MAPK, and ERK1/2 signaling pathways. Clinical data analysis revealed that REPS2 expression levels were inversely correlated with the development of HCC and reduced REPS2 expression associated with poor prognosis, suggesting that REPS2 might be involved in the development of HCC. In conclusion, this study provides new insights into the potential mechanisms of LXR agonist-inhibited HCC.
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- Xiao-Yu He
- Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Regulation for Major Diseases of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, College of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Regulation for Major Diseases of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, College of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Regulation for Major Diseases of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, College of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Regulation for Major Diseases of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, College of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Regulation for Major Diseases of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, College of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China
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- Department of Human Cell Biology and Genetics, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Medicine, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230601, China
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- Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Regulation for Major Diseases of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, College of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Regulation for Major Diseases of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, College of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Regulation for Major Diseases of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, College of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Regulation for Major Diseases of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, College of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China.
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Zhang ZY, Yang LT, Yue Q, Kang KJ, Li YJ, Agartioglu M, An HP, Chang JP, Chen YH, Cheng JP, Dai WH, Deng Z, Fang CH, Geng XP, Gong H, Guo QJ, Guo XY, He L, He SM, Hu JW, Huang HX, Huang TC, Jia HT, Jiang X, Li HB, Li JM, Li J, Li QY, Li RMJ, Li XQ, Li YL, Liang YF, Liao B, Lin FK, Lin ST, Liu SK, Liu YD, Liu Y, Liu YY, Liu ZZ, Ma H, Mao YC, Nie QY, Ning JH, Pan H, Qi NC, Ren J, Ruan XC, Saraswat K, Sharma V, She Z, Singh MK, Sun TX, Tang CJ, Tang WY, Tian Y, Wang GF, Wang L, Wang Q, Wang Y, Wang YX, Wong HT, Wu SY, Wu YC, Xing HY, Xu R, Xu Y, Xue T, Yan YL, Yeh CH, Yi N, Yu CX, Yu HJ, Yue JF, Zeng M, Zeng Z, Zhang BT, Zhang FS, Zhang L, Zhang ZH, Zhao KK, Zhao MG, Zhou JF, Zhou ZY, Zhu JJ. Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Matter-Electron Scattering from the CDEX-10 Experiment. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 129:221301. [PMID: 36493436 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.221301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2022] [Revised: 08/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
We present improved germanium-based constraints on sub-GeV dark matter via dark matter-electron (χ-e) scattering using the 205.4 kg·day dataset from the CDEX-10 experiment. Using a novel calculation technique, we attain predicted χ-e scattering spectra observable in high-purity germanium detectors. In the heavy mediator scenario, our results achieve 3 orders of magnitude of improvement for m_{χ} larger than 80 MeV/c^{2} compared to previous germanium-based χ-e results. We also present the most stringent χ-e cross-section limit to date among experiments using solid-state detectors for m_{χ} larger than 90 MeV/c^{2} with heavy mediators and m_{χ} larger than 100 MeV/c^{2} with electric dipole coupling. The result proves the feasibility and demonstrates the vast potential of a new χ-e detection method with high-purity germanium detectors in ultralow radioactive background.
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- Z Y Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- Sino-French Institute of Nuclear and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
- Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
- Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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Dai WH, Jia LP, Ma H, Yue Q, Kang KJ, Li YJ, An HP, C G, Chang JP, Chen YH, Cheng JP, Deng Z, Fang CH, Geng XP, Gong H, Guo QJ, Guo XY, He L, He SM, Hu JW, Huang HX, Huang TC, Jia HT, Jiang X, Karmakar S, Li HB, Li JM, Li J, Li QY, Li RMJ, Li XQ, Li YL, Liang YF, Liao B, Lin FK, Lin ST, Liu SK, Liu YD, Liu Y, Liu YY, Liu ZZ, Mao YC, Nie QY, Ning JH, Pan H, Qi NC, Ren J, Ruan XC, She Z, Singh MK, Sun TX, Tang CJ, Tang WY, Tian Y, Wang GF, Wang L, Wang Q, Wang Y, Wang YX, Wong HT, Wu SY, Wu YC, Xing HY, Xu R, Xu Y, Xue T, Yan YL, Yang LT, Yi N, Yu CX, Yu HJ, Yue JF, Zeng M, Zeng Z, Zhang BT, Zhang FS, Zhang L, Zhang ZH, Zhang ZY, Zhao KK, Zhao MG, Zhou JF, Zhou ZY, Zhu JJ. Exotic Dark Matter Search with the CDEX-10 Experiment at China's Jinping Underground Laboratory. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 129:221802. [PMID: 36493447 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.221802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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A search for exotic dark matter (DM) in the sub-GeV mass range has been conducted using 205 kg day data taken from a p-type point contact germanium detector of the CDEX-10 experiment at China's Jinping underground laboratory. New low-mass dark matter searching channels, neutral current fermionic DM absorption (χ+A→ν+A) and DM-nucleus 3→2 scattering (χ+χ+A→ϕ+A), have been analyzed with an energy threshold of 160 eVee. No significant signal was found; thus new limits on the DM-nucleon interaction cross section are set for both models at the sub-GeV DM mass region. A cross section limit for the fermionic DM absorption is set to be 2.5×10^{-46} cm^{2} (90% C.L.) at DM mass of 10 MeV/c^{2}. For the DM-nucleus 3→2 scattering scenario, limits are extended to DM mass of 5 and 14 MeV/c^{2} for the massless dark photon and bound DM final state, respectively.
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- W H Dai
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- Sino-French Institute of Nuclear and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
- Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065
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She Z, Jia LP, Yue Q, Ma H, Kang KJ, Li YJ, Agartioglu M, An HP, Chang JP, Chen JH, Chen YH, Cheng JP, Dai WH, Deng Z, Geng XP, Gong H, Gu P, Guo QJ, Guo XY, He L, He SM, He HT, Hu JW, Huang TC, Huang HX, Li HB, Li H, Li JM, Li J, Li MX, Li X, Li XQ, Li YL, Liao B, Lin FK, Lin ST, Liu SK, Liu YD, Liu YY, Liu ZZ, Mao YC, Nie QY, Ning JH, Pan H, Qi NC, Qiao CK, Ren J, Ruan XC, Sevda B, Shang CS, Sharma V, Singh L, Singh MK, Sun TX, Tang CJ, Tang WY, Tian Y, Wang GF, Wang L, Wang Q, Wang Y, Wang YX, Wang Z, Wong HT, Wu SY, Xing HY, Xu Y, Xue T, Yan YL, Yang LT, Yi N, Yu CX, Yu HJ, Yue JF, Zeng M, Zeng Z, Zhang BT, Zhang L, Zhang FS, Zhang ZY, Zhao MG, Zhou JF, Zhou ZY, Zhu JJ. Direct Detection Constraints on Dark Photons with the CDEX-10 Experiment at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 124:111301. [PMID: 32242731 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.111301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We report constraints on the dark photon effective kinetic mixing parameter (κ) with data taken from two p-type point-contact germanium detectors of the CDEX-10 experiment at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. The 90% confidence level upper limits on κ of solar dark photon from 205.4 kg-day exposure are derived, probing new parameter space with masses (m_{V}) from 10 to 300 eV/c^{2} in direct detection experiments. Considering dark photon as the cosmological dark matter, limits at 90% confidence level with m_{V} from 0.1 to 4.0 keV/c^{2} are set from 449.6 kg-day data, with a minimum of κ=1.3×10^{-15} at m_{V}=200 eV/c^{2}.
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- Z She
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
- Department of Physics, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir 35160
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- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Sino-French Institute of Nuclear and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 519082
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
- Department of Physics, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir 35160
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
- Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
- Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
- Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
- Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- NUCTECH Company, Beijing 100084
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
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- College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
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- YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu 610051
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
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- College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
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Yu SN, Miao YY, Zhang BT, Dai YM, Liu L, Gao ZL, Liu GF. MicroRNA-1269a promotes the occurrence and progression of osteosarcoma by inhibit-ing TGF-β1 expression. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2019; 23:972-981. [PMID: 30779063 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_201902_16984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE MicroRNAs are endogenous, non-coding small RNAs that are capable of regulating biological and pathological processes. Previous studies have shown that microRNA-1269a serves as an oncogene. However, the role of microRNA-1269a in the pathogenesis of osteosarcoma (OS) has not been reported. The aim of this work was to investigate the expression characteristics of microRNA-1269a in OS and to further study its regulatory effects on the malignant progression of OS. PATIENTS AND METHODS The expression of microRNA-1269a in 61 pairs of OS tissues and para-cancerous tissues was detected by quantitative Real Time-polymerase Chain Reaction (qRT-PCR). Chi-square test was used to analyze the relationship between microRNA-1269a expression and the characteristics of OS patients, including age, sex, clinical stage and distant metastasis. Subsequently, microRNA-1269a expression in OS cell lines was detected as well. After knockdown of microRNA-1269a by constructing relevant small interference RNA, biological performances of MG63 and U2OS cells were accessed by cell counting kit-8 (CCK-8), colony formation and transwell assay. Meanwhile, the protein expressions of key genes in the EMT/Smad pathway were detected by Western blot. Finally, si-TGF-β1 (transforming growth factor-β1) was transfected into OS cells, and cell migration and invasion were detected by transwell assay. RESULTS MicroRNA-1269a was highly expressed in OS tissues compared with para-cancerous tissues. High expression of microRNA-1269a was positively correlated with young OS patients and high rate of distant metastasis, whereas was not correlated with age, sex and Enneking stage. Kaplan-Meier survival curves showed that high expression of microRNA-1269a was significantly associated with poor prognosis of OS. The knockdown of microRNA-1269a in MG63 and U2OS cells significantly inhibited cell proliferation, migration and invasion. Meanwhile, microRNA-1269a knockdown in OS cells markedly downregulated the expressions of TGF-β1, p-Smad2, p-Smad3, N-cad, Vimentin and MMP9. Furthermore, TGF-β1 knockdown remarkably decreased migratory and invasive abilities of OS cells. CONCLUSIONS MicroRNA-1269a is highly expressed in OS, which is remarkably correlated with tumor stage, distant metastasis and poor prognosis of OS. In addition, microRNA-1269a promotes the malignant progression of OS by regulating TGF-β1 expression.
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- S-N Yu
- Departments of Radiology, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
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Xu CS, Ip M, Leung AW, Wang XN, Yang ZR, Zhang BT, Ip SP. Sonodynamic bactericidal activity of curcumin against foodborne bacteria. Hong Kong Med J 2018; 24 Suppl 6:43-44. [PMID: 30229738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
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- C S Xu
- School of Chinese Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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- School of Chinese Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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- School of Chinese Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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- Shenzhen Center of Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Chinese Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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- School of Chinese Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Zhang BT, Liu L, Zheng J, Dai YM, Yu SN, Liu GF, Liu L. [Effect of snow sports on knee cartilage maturation in children and adolescent with MRI quantitative analysis Zhang]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2016; 96:3499-3503. [PMID: 27903346 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0376-2491.2016.43.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Objective: To evaluate the effect of snow sports to the knee cartilage maturation of children and adolescent with quantitative analysis of 3.0 T MRI. Methods: Twenty children and adolescent who underwent snow sports training more than 6 months (11 males and 9 females) were recruited and named with sports group, and twenty children and adolescent who live regularly without any exercise (10 males and 10 females) were recruited as control group from June 2014 to June 2015.Each group was divided into subgroups according to their gender.Both groups were scanned by 3.0 T MR.According to the loading features of knee articular cartilage in snow sports, medial femoral condyle, lateral femoral condyle, medial tibial condyle and lateral tibial condyle were divided into subareas.T2 values and cartilage thickness were measured in all areas. Results: The median ages of the sports group and control group were 14.2 and 13.6 years old, which showed no statistical difference between two groups.The BMI of the sports group and control group were 18.3 and 17.9 kg/m2, which showed no statistical difference between two groups.Both in sports group and control group, the thickness and T2 values of all areas showed significant differences between man and women in each group (all P<0.05). The cartilage thickness of sports group was higher than control group (P<0.05). The T2 values showed no statistical difference in anterior central, posterior central of femoral condyles and anterior, central areas of tibial condyles between sports group and control group(P≥0.05). The T2 values of anterior part of posterior femur and posterior areas of tibial condyle in sports group was higher than control group (P≥0.05). Conclusion: Gender difference may be an important effect factor of cartilage thickness. Scientific snow sports training maybe has positive influence for cartilage maturation of children and adolescent.
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- B T Zhang
- Department of Radiology, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130033, China
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Liu SD, Zheng LH, He JL, Xu J, Xu XD, Su LB, Yang KJ, Zhang BT, Wang RH, Liu XM. Passively Q-switched Nd:Sc0.2Y0.8SiO5 dual-wavelength laser with the orthogonally polarized output. Opt Express 2012; 20:22448-22453. [PMID: 23037393 DOI: 10.1364/oe.20.022448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We have demonstrated a laser-diode pumped continuous-wave (CW) and passively Q-switched laser with a Nd:Sc(0.2)Y(0.8)SiO(5) (Nd:SYSO) crystal for the first time. In the CW operation, the laser was found to oscillate in tri-wavelength regime at 1074.8 nm, 1076.6 nm and 1078.2 nm, respectively. The maximum CW output power of 1.96 W was obtained, giving an optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 35% and a slope efficiency of 39%. Using either Cr(4+):YAG or V(3+):YAG crystal as saturable absorber, stable passively Q-switched laser was obtained at dual-wavelength of 1074.8 nm and 1078.2 nm with orthogonal-polarization. The maximum average output power, pulse repetition rate, and shortest pulse width were 1.03 W, 50 kHz, and 24 ns, respectively. The passively Q-switched dual-wavelength laser could be potentially used as a source for generation of terahertz radiation.
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- S D Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Ji’nan 250100, China
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Wang ZZ, Li WJ, Wang BQ, Zhang BT, Xing JZ, Jing XG, Dang BR, Wei W, Zhao WX. Cytogenetic effects induced by accelerated carbon ions with shielding. Radiat Environ Biophys 2011; 50:383-387. [PMID: 21656249 DOI: 10.1007/s00411-011-0372-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2010] [Accepted: 05/23/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Our work aims to understand the effects of shielding on the induction of biological damage by heavy charged particles and to compare the shielding effects of different materials at the same LET from two aspects: the biological effectiveness including or not including secondary particles emitted at large angles and the biological effectiveness at different angles with respect to the beam direction. We designed and conducted biological experiments to determine the biological effectiveness of 200 MeV/u carbon ions after traversing different shielding materials (Lucite and aluminium). Whole blood samples, which were either attached to the shielding material (48 mm Lucite or 29 mm aluminium)or positioned at 300 cm away from it at different angles with respect to the beam axis, were exposed to carbon ion beams. For comparison, whole blood samples were exposed directly to 200 MeV/u carbon ions. Chromosomal aberrations in lymphocytes were scored. The results indicated that the biological effectiveness per unit dose was not significantly changed by 48 mm Lucite or 29 mm aluminium, and no significant differences were observed in lymphocytes attached to the target and in lymphocytes positioned at a distance of 300 cm away from the target, at 0º angle of the beam axis. However, when plotted as a function of the number of ions hitting the shielding target, the curves are separated and the shield increases the effectiveness per unit ion. The frequency of chromosomal aberrations at tilted angles behind 29 mm Al and 48 mm Lucite was almost the same. These lesions were considered to be caused by secondary particles due to the passage of particles through the shielding materials.
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- Z Z Wang
- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
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Schmidt-Kastner R, Zhang BT, Webster K, Kietzmann T, Zhao W, Busto R, Ginsberg MD. Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 (Hif-1) in Experimental Brain Ischemia. ScientificWorldJournal 2002; 2:123-124. [PMID: 29973833 PMCID: PMC6009418 DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2002.58] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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- Rainald Schmidt-Kastner
- Deptartments. of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016960, Miami, FL 33101, USA
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- Deptartments. of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016960, Miami, FL 33101, USA
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- Mol. Cell. Pharmacology, University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016960, Miami, FL 33101, USA
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- Deptartments. of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016960, Miami, FL 33101, USA
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- Deptartments. of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016960, Miami, FL 33101, USA
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- Deptartments. of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016960, Miami, FL 33101, USA
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Huang J, Zhang BT, Li Y, Mayer B, Carraway KL, Carraway CA. c-Src association with and phosphorylation of p58gag, a membrane- and microfilament-associated retroviral Gag-like protein in a xenotransplantable rat mammary tumor. Oncogene 1999; 18:4099-107. [PMID: 10435591 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1202779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The retroviral Gag-like protein p58gag expressed in a highly metastatic ascites rat mammary adenocarcinoma has been implicated in cell surface changes contributing to xenotransplantability. p58gag is present in the cells in a plasma membrane- and microfilament-associated signal transduction particle containing Src and is phosphorylated on tyrosine. Overlay analyses and affinity chromatography with glutathione S-transferase (GST) fusion proteins of Src homology-3 (SH3) domains showed direct binding of the Src but not the Crk SH3 domain to p58gag. This association was confirmed by co-immunoprecipitation of partially purified p58gag from ascites cell lysates with platelet Src. Further, a GST-p58gag fusion protein bound full length c-Src from either platelets or c-Src-expressing insect cells. The GST-p58gag fusion protein, but not GST, was phosphorylated by platelet or insect cell-expressed c-Src, but not by a kinase negative c-Src variant. The binding of GST-p58gag to c-Src was almost completely abolished by a 50-fold excess of the GST-SH3 domain of Src, and a parallel decrease in tyrosine phosphorylation of p58gag was observed. These results demonstrate that p58gag is tyrosine-phosphorylated as a consequence of its specific association with c-Src via its SH3 domain. These observations suggest a mechanism by which Gag proteins may contribute to retroviral maturation or pathogenesis through binding and relocalization of SH3 domain-containing proteins such as Src-like tyrosine kinases to sites of association of microfilaments with the plasma membrane.
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- J Huang
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101, USA
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Shapshak P, Segal DM, Crandall KA, Fujimura RK, Zhang BT, Xin KQ, Okuda K, Petito CK, Eisdorfer C, Goodkin K. Independent evolution of HIV type 1 in different brain regions. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1999; 15:811-20. [PMID: 10381169 DOI: 10.1089/088922299310719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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HIV-1-associated brain pathology exhibits regional variability and we therefore studied the genetic differences in the V1-V5 domains of the HIV env gene in up to four regions of brain (frontal lobe, basal ganglia, medial temporal lobe, and nonmedial temporal lobe) from three patients. We found that in each separate brain region HIV-1 forms different quasispecies and that there is little gene flow among these regions. In further support of brain region-specific evolution of HIV-1, we analyzed amino acid signatures in these clones. In addition to known amino acid signatures associated with macrophage tropism and the lack of syncytium formation, we found 15 majority amino acid signature patterns from the V1-V5 env sequences associated with the neuroanatomical regions analyzed from the three individuals. Furthermore, on average, intrabrain genetic distances for the HIV-1 env were estimated to be much smaller than genetic distances between brain regions. Specific strains of HIV-1 may be neurotropic or neuroinvasive (replication preference in brain tissue) and may contribute to pathology, cognitive loss, and neuropsychiatric disease.
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- P Shapshak
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Comprehensive Drug Research Center, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33136, USA.
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Fujimura RK, Shapshak P, Segal DM, Crandall KA, Goodkin K, Page JB, Douyon R, Zhang BT, Xin KQ, Rodriguez de la Vega P, Nagona I, Srivastava A. Viral and host determinants of neurovirulence of HIV-1 infection. Adv Exp Med Biol 1998; 437:241-53. [PMID: 9666277 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5347-2_27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- R K Fujimura
- Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33136, USA.
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Goodkin K, Shapshak P, Metsch LR, McCoy CB, Crandall KA, Kumar M, Fujimura RK, McCoy V, Zhang BT, Reyblat S, Xin KQ, Kumar AM. Cocaine abuse and HIV-1 infection: epidemiology and neuropathogenesis. J Neuroimmunol 1998; 83:88-101. [PMID: 9610677 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00225-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The epidemiology of cocaine abuse and potential relationships of cocaine withdrawal to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-associated dementia (HAD) are discussed. Neuroendocrinological changes in HIV-1 infection of the central nervous system (CNS) are discussed with the relevant impact of cocaine abuse. HIV-1 load in the brain tissue of infected substance users is described along with possible associations with neuropathology and HAD. Finally, the molecular epidemiology and sequence heterogeneity of HIV-1 and their implications for neuropathogenesis are summarized. The complex context of addressing cocaine abuse in the setting of HIV-1 infection appears more tractable when decomposed into its components.
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- K Goodkin
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33136, USA.
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Segal DM, Shapshak P, Zhang BT, Crandall KA, Page B, Fujimura R, Goodkin K, Douyon R, McCoy CB. Novel tetrameric tip motifs (APGK and VPGK) in the V3 loop of HIV type 1 envelope sequences in blood and brain from two injection drug users in Miami, Florida. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1997; 13:1643-6. [PMID: 9430257 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1997.13.1643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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- D M Segal
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33136, USA
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This paper is concerned with the automatic induction of parsimonious neural networks. In contrast to other program induction situations, network induction entails parametric learning as well as structural adaptation. We present a novel representation scheme called neural trees that allows efficient learning of both network architectures and parameters by genetic search. A hybrid evolutionary method is developed for neural tree induction that combines genetic programming and the breeder genetic algorithm under the unified framework of the minimum description length principle. The method is successfully applied to the induction of higher order neural trees while still keeping the resulting structures sparse to ensure good generalization performance. Empirical results are provided on two chaotic time series prediction problems of practical interest.
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- BT Zhang
- Department of Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea.
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The proliferation of neonatal Schwann cells (SCs) in response to mitogenic agents has been well analyzed in vitro, but a limited range of mitogens have been defined. We investigated whether three identified neonatal SC mitogens [glial growth factor (GGF), platelet-derived growth factor BB (PDGF-BB), and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF)] are required to stimulate mitosis of adult SCs. Adult SCs were isolated from mouse sciatic nerves by mechanical and chemical dissociation, following three experimental steps: 1) culturing the dissociated cells for 24 hr in 10% FCS-F12 medium, 2) culturing these cells in serum-free medium for the next 48 hr, and 3) purifying adult SCs by differential adhesion. We describe a new method for preparation of SCs from peripheral nerves of adult mouse that provides 99.5% pure SCs populations at cell yields of greater than 3 x 10(3) cells/mg of starting nerve wet weight within 5 culture days. Although mitosis of SCs in culture in response to mitogens requires the presence of serum, the complex nature of serum renders difficult a complete analysis of mitogens required for SCs DNA synthesis, so we examined the proliferating response of adult SCs to GGF, PDGF-BB, and bFGF in serum-free medium. GGF alone had mitogenicity for adult SCs in a dose-dependent manner, and synergistic activation coupling with forskolin was not observed. Neither PDGF-BB nor bFGF was mitogenic for adult SCs when used alone or with forskolin.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- B T Zhang
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Japan
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Much previous work on training multilayer neural networks has attempted to speed up the backpropagation algorithm using more sophisticated weight modification rules, whereby all the given training examples are used in a random or predetermined sequence. In this paper we investigate an alternative approach in which the learning proceeds on an increasing number of selected training examples, starting with a small training set. We derive a measure of criticality of examples and present an incremental learning algorithm that uses this measure to select a critical subset of given examples for solving the particular task. Our experimental results suggest that the method can significantly improve training speed and generalization performance in many real applications of neural networks. This method can be used in conjunction with other variations of gradient descent algorithms.
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- B T Zhang
- AI Division, Institute for Computer Science, University of Bonn, Germany
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