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Helmich I, Chang YY, Gemmerich R, Rodrigo L, Funken J, Arun KM, Van de Vliet P. Neurobehavioral consequences of repetitive head impacts in Para swimming: A case report. J Sci Med Sport 2024; 27:16-19. [PMID: 37923648 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsams.2023.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 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: 07/25/2023] [Revised: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
Abstract
Para swimmers with limb deficiency are faced with the particular situation that they must use their head to finish each competition by a hit to the wall. Repetitive head impacts may impair behavioral and brain functions. We therefore investigated neurobehavioral functions of a Para swimmer with dysmelia before and after repetitive head impacts (T1) and without (T2). Average head impact at T1 constituted 13.6 g with a mean impact force of 6689.9 N. Behavioral and brain functions decreased from pre to post at T1 but not at T2. Para swimmers with limb deficiency are therefore affected from the same consequences onto brain health that are observed after repeated sport-related concussions.
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- I Helmich
- Department of Motor Behavior in Sports, German Sport University (GSU), Germany.
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- Department of Motor Behavior in Sports, German Sport University (GSU), Germany
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- Department of Motor Behavior in Sports, German Sport University (GSU), Germany
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- Department of Motor Behavior in Sports, German Sport University (GSU), Germany
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- Institute of Biomechanics and Orthopaedics, GSU Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Biomechanics, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
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Albakry MF, Alkhatib I, Alonso D, Amaral DWP, Aralis T, Aramaki T, Arnquist IJ, Ataee Langroudy I, Azadbakht E, Banik S, Bathurst C, Bhattacharyya R, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Calkins R, Cameron RA, Cartaro C, Cerdeño DG, Chang YY, Chaudhuri M, Chen R, Chott N, Cooley J, Coombes H, Corbett J, Cushman P, Das S, De Brienne F, Rios M, Dharani S, di Vacri ML, Diamond MD, Elwan M, Fascione E, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fink CW, Fouts K, Fritts M, Gerbier G, Germond R, Ghaith M, Golwala SR, Hall J, Harms SAS, Hassan N, Hines BA, Hong Z, Hoppe EW, Hsu L, Huber ME, Iyer V, Kashyap VKS, Kelsey MH, Kubik A, Kurinsky NA, Lee M, Litke M, Liu J, Liu Y, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, MacFarlane DB, Mahapatra R, Mast N, Mayer AJ, Meyer Zu Theenhausen H, Michaud É, Michielin E, Mirabolfathi N, Mohanty B, Nebolsky B, Nelson J, Neog H, Novati V, Orrell JL, Osborne MD, Oser SM, Page WA, Pandey L, Pandey S, Partridge R, Pedreros DS, Perna L, Podviianiuk R, Ponce F, Poudel S, Pradeep A, Pyle M, Rau W, Reid E, Ren R, Reynolds T, Tanner E, Roberts A, Robinson AE, Saab T, Sadek D, Sadoulet B, Sahoo SP, Saikia I, Sander J, Sattari A, Schmidt B, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Serfass B, Poudel SS, Sincavage DJ, Sinervo P, Speaks Z, Street J, Sun H, Terry GD, Thasrawala FK, Toback D, Underwood R, Verma S, Villano AN, von Krosigk B, Watkins SL, Wen O, Williams Z, Wilson MJ, Winchell J, Wykoff K, Yellin S, Young BA, Yu TC, Zatschler B, Zatschler S, Zaytsev A, Zeolla A, Zhang E, Zheng L, Zheng Y, Zuniga A, An P, Barbeau PS, Hedges SC, Li L, Runge J. First Measurement of the Nuclear-Recoil Ionization Yield in Silicon at 100 eV. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:091801. [PMID: 37721818 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.091801] [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: 03/21/2023] [Revised: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/26/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023]
Abstract
We measured the nuclear-recoil ionization yield in silicon with a cryogenic phonon-sensitive gram-scale detector. Neutrons from a monoenergetic beam scatter off of the silicon nuclei at angles corresponding to energy depositions from 4 keV down to 100 eV, the lowest energy probed so far. The results show no sign of an ionization production threshold above 100 eV. These results call for further investigation of the ionization yield theory and a comprehensive determination of the detector response function at energies below the keV scale.
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- M F Albakry
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni - 752050, India
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni - 752050, India
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni - 752050, India
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- College of Natural and Health Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai, 19282, United Arab Emirates
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
- Laurentian University, Department of Physics, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni - 752050, India
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni - 752050, India
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
- Laurentian University, Department of Physics, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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Alkhatib I, Amaral DWP, Aralis T, Aramaki T, Arnquist IJ, Ataee Langroudy I, Azadbakht E, Banik S, Barker D, Bathurst C, Bauer DA, Bezerra LVS, Bhattacharyya R, Bowles MA, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Calkins R, Cameron RA, Cartaro C, Cerdeño DG, Chang YY, Chaudhuri M, Chen R, Chott N, Cooley J, Coombes H, Corbett J, Cushman P, De Brienne F, di Vacri ML, Diamond MD, Fascione E, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fink CW, Fouts K, Fritts M, Gerbier G, Germond R, Ghaith M, Golwala SR, Harris HR, Hines BA, Hollister MI, Hong Z, Hoppe EW, Hsu L, Huber ME, Iyer V, Jardin D, Jastram A, Kashyap VKS, Kelsey MH, Kubik A, Kurinsky NA, Lawrence RE, Li A, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, MacFarlane DB, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Mast N, Mayer AJ, Meyer Zu Theenhausen H, Michaud ÉM, Michielin E, Mirabolfathi N, Mohanty B, Morales Mendoza JD, Nagorny S, Nelson J, Neog H, Novati V, Orrell JL, Oser SM, Page WA, Partridge R, Podviianiuk R, Ponce F, Poudel S, Pradeep A, Pyle M, Rau W, Reid E, Ren R, Reynolds T, Roberts A, Robinson AE, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Sattari A, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Serfass B, Sincavage DJ, Stanford C, Street J, Toback D, Underwood R, Verma S, Villano AN, von Krosigk B, Watkins SL, Wilson JS, Wilson MJ, Winchell J, Wright DH, Yellin S, Young BA, Yu TC, Zhang E, Zhang HG, Zhao X, Zheng L. Constraints on Lightly Ionizing Particles from CDMSlite. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 127:081802. [PMID: 34477436 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.081802] [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: 11/18/2020] [Revised: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) achieved efficient detection of very small recoil energies in its germanium target, resulting in sensitivity to lightly ionizing particles (LIPs) in a previously unexplored region of charge, mass, and velocity parameter space. We report first direct-detection limits calculated using the optimum interval method on the vertical intensity of cosmogenically produced LIPs with an electric charge smaller than e/(3×10^{5}), as well as the strongest limits for charge ≤e/160, with a minimum vertical intensity of 1.36×10^{-7} cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1} at charge e/160. These results apply over a wide range of LIP masses (5 MeV/c^{2} to 100 TeV/c^{2}) and cover a wide range of βγ values (0.1-10^{6}), thus excluding nonrelativistic LIPs with βγ as small as 0.1 for the first time.
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- I Alkhatib
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - C Cartaro
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - D G Cerdeño
- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
| | - Y-Y Chang
- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
| | - M Chaudhuri
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - R Chen
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
| | - N Chott
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - J Cooley
- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - H Coombes
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
| | - J Corbett
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - F De Brienne
- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
| | - M L di Vacri
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99352, USA
| | - M D Diamond
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
| | - E Fascione
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - E Figueroa-Feliciano
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - K Fouts
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - M Fritts
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - G Gerbier
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - R Germond
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - B A Hines
- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
| | - M I Hollister
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - Z Hong
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
| | - E W Hoppe
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99352, USA
| | - L Hsu
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - M E Huber
- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
| | - V Iyer
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - D Jardin
- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - A Jastram
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - V K S Kashyap
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - A Kubik
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - N A Kurinsky
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - R E Lawrence
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - A Li
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | - B Loer
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99352, USA
| | - E Lopez Asamar
- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
| | - P Lukens
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - D B MacFarlane
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - R Mahapatra
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - V Mandic
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - N Mast
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - A J Mayer
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | | | - É M Michaud
- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
| | - E Michielin
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | - N Mirabolfathi
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - B Mohanty
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - J D Morales Mendoza
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - S Nagorny
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - J Nelson
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - H Neog
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - V Novati
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
| | - J L Orrell
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99352, USA
| | - S M Oser
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | - W A Page
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - R Partridge
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - R Podviianiuk
- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
| | - F Ponce
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - S Poudel
- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
| | - A Pradeep
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | - M Pyle
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - W Rau
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | - E Reid
- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
| | - R Ren
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
| | - T Reynolds
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
| | - A Roberts
- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
| | - A E Robinson
- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
| | - T Saab
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
| | - B Sadoulet
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - J Sander
- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
| | - A Sattari
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
| | - R W Schnee
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - S Scorza
- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
- Laurentian University, Department of Physics, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada
| | - B Serfass
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - D J Sincavage
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - C Stanford
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - J Street
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - D Toback
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - R Underwood
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - S Verma
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - A N Villano
- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
| | - B von Krosigk
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
| | - S L Watkins
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - J S Wilson
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - M J Wilson
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
| | - J Winchell
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - D H Wright
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - S Yellin
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - B A Young
- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
| | - T C Yu
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - E Zhang
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
| | - H G Zhang
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - X Zhao
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - L Zheng
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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Alkhatib I, Amaral DWP, Aralis T, Aramaki T, Arnquist IJ, Ataee Langroudy I, Azadbakht E, Banik S, Barker D, Bathurst C, Bauer DA, Bezerra LVS, Bhattacharyya R, Binder T, Bowles MA, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Calkins R, Cameron RA, Cartaro C, Cerdeño DG, Chang YY, Chaudhuri M, Chen R, Chott N, Cooley J, Coombes H, Corbett J, Cushman P, De Brienne F, di Vacri ML, Diamond MD, Fascione E, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fink CW, Fouts K, Fritts M, Gerbier G, Germond R, Ghaith M, Golwala SR, Harris HR, Herbert N, Hines BA, Hollister MI, Hong Z, Hoppe EW, Hsu L, Huber ME, Iyer V, Jardin D, Jastram A, Kashyap VKS, Kelsey MH, Kubik A, Kurinsky NA, Lawrence RE, Li A, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, MacDonell D, MacFarlane DB, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Mast N, Mayer AJ, Meyer Zu Theenhausen H, Michaud ÉM, Michielin E, Mirabolfathi N, Mohanty B, Morales Mendoza JD, Nagorny S, Nelson J, Neog H, Novati V, Orrell JL, Oser SM, Page WA, Pakarha P, Partridge R, Podviianiuk R, Ponce F, Poudel S, Pyle M, Rau W, Reid E, Ren R, Reynolds T, Roberts A, Robinson AE, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Sattari A, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Serfass B, Sincavage DJ, Stanford C, Street J, Toback D, Underwood R, Verma S, Villano AN, von Krosigk B, Watkins SL, Wills L, Wilson JS, Wilson MJ, Winchell J, Wright DH, Yellin S, Young BA, Yu TC, Zhang E, Zhang HG, Zhao X, Zheng L, Camilleri J, Kolomensky YG, Zuber S. Light Dark Matter Search with a High-Resolution Athermal Phonon Detector Operated above Ground. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 127:061801. [PMID: 34420312 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.061801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 05/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
We present limits on spin-independent dark matter-nucleon interactions using a 10.6 g Si athermal phonon detector with a baseline energy resolution of σ_{E}=3.86±0.04(stat)_{-0.00}^{+0.19}(syst) eV. This exclusion analysis sets the most stringent dark matter-nucleon scattering cross-section limits achieved by a cryogenic detector for dark matter particle masses from 93 to 140 MeV/c^{2}, with a raw exposure of 9.9 g d acquired at an above-ground facility. This work illustrates the scientific potential of detectors with athermal phonon sensors with eV-scale energy resolution for future dark matter searches.
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Affiliation(s)
- I Alkhatib
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
| | - D W P Amaral
- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
| | - T Aralis
- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
| | - T Aramaki
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - I J Arnquist
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
| | - I Ataee Langroudy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - E Azadbakht
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - S Banik
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - D Barker
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - C Bathurst
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
| | - D A Bauer
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - L V S Bezerra
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | - R Bhattacharyya
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - T Binder
- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
| | - M A Bowles
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - P L Brink
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - R Bunker
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
| | - B Cabrera
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - R Calkins
- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - R A Cameron
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - C Cartaro
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - D G Cerdeño
- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
| | - Y-Y Chang
- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
| | - M Chaudhuri
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - R Chen
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
| | - N Chott
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - J Cooley
- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - H Coombes
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
| | - J Corbett
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - P Cushman
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - F De Brienne
- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
| | - M L di Vacri
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
| | - M D Diamond
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
| | - E Fascione
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - E Figueroa-Feliciano
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
| | - C W Fink
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - K Fouts
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - M Fritts
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - G Gerbier
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - R Germond
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - M Ghaith
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - S R Golwala
- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
| | - H R Harris
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - N Herbert
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - B A Hines
- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
| | - M I Hollister
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - Z Hong
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
| | - E W Hoppe
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
| | - L Hsu
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - M E Huber
- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
| | - V Iyer
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - D Jardin
- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - A Jastram
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - V K S Kashyap
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - M H Kelsey
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - A Kubik
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - N A Kurinsky
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - R E Lawrence
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - A Li
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | - B Loer
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
| | - E Lopez Asamar
- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
| | - P Lukens
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - D MacDonell
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | - D B MacFarlane
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - R Mahapatra
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - V Mandic
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - N Mast
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - A J Mayer
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | | | - É M Michaud
- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
| | - E Michielin
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | - N Mirabolfathi
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - B Mohanty
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - J D Morales Mendoza
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - S Nagorny
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - J Nelson
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - H Neog
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - V Novati
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
| | - J L Orrell
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
| | - S M Oser
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | - W A Page
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - P Pakarha
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - R Partridge
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - R Podviianiuk
- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
| | - F Ponce
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - S Poudel
- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
| | - M Pyle
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - W Rau
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | - E Reid
- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
| | - R Ren
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
| | - T Reynolds
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
| | - A Roberts
- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
| | - A E Robinson
- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
| | - T Saab
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
| | - B Sadoulet
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - J Sander
- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
| | - A Sattari
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
| | - R W Schnee
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - S Scorza
- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
| | - B Serfass
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - D J Sincavage
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - C Stanford
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - J Street
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - D Toback
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - R Underwood
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - S Verma
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - A N Villano
- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
| | - B von Krosigk
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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In compromised bone conditions such as osteoporosis, developments of the implant surface are necessary to secure the stability of implants. This study investigated the effect of the surface porous titanium structure (PS) on the osseointegration of implants in osteoporotic bone. Bilateral ovariectomy (OVX) was performed in 4 female beagle dogs to induce osteoporosis for 32 wk. Success of induction was based on the evaluation of bone mineral density by Hounsfield units (HU) in computed tomography images. Posterior teeth in both mandibles were extracted 1 wk after OVX, and a total of 30 implants (15 implants in each group) were placed after 32 wk of osteoporosis induction. The control group implant underwent resorbable blast media (RBM) surface treatment, whereas the test group underwent RBM surface treatment in the coronal two-thirds and a PS added to the apical 3-mm portion. HU values in the mandibular trabecular bone, lumbar, and femoral head significantly decreased 32 wk after OVX, confirming osteoporotic condition after induction. Resonance frequency analysis and removal torque test showed comparable values between the 2 groups at 4 wk after implant placement. The surface topography of the implant after removal showed hard tissue integration at the PS in the test group. Bone-to-implant contact length was greater in the apical portion of the test group, although statistical significance was not found between the groups. Interthread bone area in the apical portion of the test group showed a significant increase compared to the control group (control: 0.059 ± 0.041 mm2, test: 0.121 ± 0.060 mm2, P = 0.028) with the histological feature of bone ingrowth at the PS. The findings of the study demonstrated that the surface PS could improve osteoconductivity in the osteoporotic trabecular bone by bone ingrowth at the pore space, thereby enhancing the osseointegration and stability of the implants.
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- S Y Ko
- Department of Periodontology, College of Dentistry and Institute of Oral Bioscience, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Periodontology, Periodontal-Implant Clinical Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Advanced Process and Materials R&D Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Dentistry, Inha International Medical Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- MIR Dental Hospital and MegaGen, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Periodontology, College of Dentistry and Institute of Oral Bioscience, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea.,Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Jeonbuk National University-Biomedical Research Institute of Jeonbuk National University Hospital, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
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Chang YY, Wang YG, Fan P, Wang JQ, Shu YQ, Li R, Zhong XN, Long L, Zhao ZH, Li CX, Qiu W. [Expression of HLA-DP in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2019; 99:3574-3580. [PMID: 31826574 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0376-2491.2019.45.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Objective: To investigate the effect of HLA-DP gene expression on the susceptibility and disease status of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD). Methods: A total of 86 NMOSD patients (52 in acute phase and 34 in remission phase), 52 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients (20 in acute phase and 32 in remission phase) diagnosed in Department of Neurology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and 29 healthy controls were enrolled prospectively. Genotyping of HLA-DP was performed. The expression levels of HLA-DP molecules in peripheral blood B cells and monocytes were measured by flow cytometry. The transcription levels of HLA-DPB1 mRNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were measured by real time-PCR. The results were compared among different groups Results: There was no statistically significant difference of the distributions of HLA-DPB1*0501/HLA-DPB1*0501, HLA-DPB1*0501/X and X/X genotypes and the frequencies of allele of HLA-DPB1*0501 among NMOSD, MS patients and healthy controls (P=0.96 and 0.71, respectively). The expression levels of HLA-DP on the surface of B cells in NMOSD patients, especially in remission phase patients, were significantly higher than those in healthy controls(212±328 and 374±394 vs 55±57, P=0.049 and 0.002, respectively). The expression levels of HLA-DP on the surface of monocytes in NMOSD patients in acute phase were significantly higher than those in healthy controls(158±175 vs 65±90, P=0.025). The transcription levels of PMBC HLA-DPB1 mRNA in acute phase and remission phase of NMOSD patients were significantly higher than those in healthy controls (3.0±1.4 and 2.9±1.3 vs 1.5±1.4, P=0.000 and 0.003, respectively). The expression levels of HLA-DP molecules on the surface of peripheral blood B cells and monocytes and the transcription levels of PMBC HLA-DPB1 mRNA in MS patients at the acute and remission stages were not significantly different from those in healthy controls. The expression levels of HLA-DP molecules on the surface of B cells in patients with HLA-DPB1*0501/HLA-DPB1*0501, HLA-DPB1*0501/X and X/X genotypes were statistically different (P=0.017). Conclusion: HLA-DP gene transcription and molecular expression levels in antigen presenting cells may affect the susceptibility and disease status of NMOSD patients, while HLA-DPB1*0501 allele may affect the transcription and molecular expression levels of HLA-DP gene in antigen presenting cells.
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- Y Y Chang
- Department of Neurology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450051, China
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- School of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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Agnese R, Aralis T, Aramaki T, Arnquist IJ, Azadbakht E, Baker W, Banik S, Barker D, Bauer DA, Binder T, Bowles MA, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Calkins R, Cartaro C, Cerdeño DG, Chang YY, Cooley J, Cornell B, Cushman P, Di Stefano PCF, Doughty T, Fascione E, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fink C, Fritts M, Gerbier G, Germond R, Ghaith M, Golwala SR, Harris HR, Hong Z, Hoppe EW, Hsu L, Huber ME, Iyer V, Jardin D, Jena C, Kelsey MH, Kennedy A, Kubik A, Kurinsky NA, Lawrence RE, Leyva JV, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, MacDonell D, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Mast N, Miller EH, Mirabolfathi N, Mohanty B, Morales Mendoza JD, Nelson J, Orrell JL, Oser SM, Page WA, Partridge R, Pepin M, Phipps A, Ponce F, Poudel S, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Reisetter A, Reynolds T, Roberts A, Robinson AE, Rogers HE, Romani RK, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Scarff A, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Senapati K, Serfass B, So J, Speller D, Stanford C, Stein M, Street J, Tanaka HA, Toback D, Underwood R, Villano AN, von Krosigk B, Watkins SL, Wilson JS, Wilson MJ, Winchell J, Wright DH, Yellin S, Young BA, Zhang X, Zhao X. Erratum: First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 051301 (2018)]. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 122:069901. [PMID: 30822060 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.069901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.051301.
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Agnese R, Aralis T, Aramaki T, Arnquist IJ, Azadbakht E, Baker W, Banik S, Barker D, Bauer DA, Binder T, Bowles MA, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Calkins R, Cartaro C, Cerdeño DG, Chang YY, Cooley J, Cornell B, Cushman P, Di Stefano PCF, Doughty T, Fascione E, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fink C, Fritts M, Gerbier G, Germond R, Ghaith M, Golwala SR, Harris HR, Hong Z, Hoppe EW, Hsu L, Huber ME, Iyer V, Jardin D, Jena C, Kelsey MH, Kennedy A, Kubik A, Kurinsky NA, Lawrence RE, Leyva JV, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, MacDonell D, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Mast N, Miller EH, Mirabolfathi N, Mohanty B, Morales Mendoza JD, Nelson J, Orrell JL, Oser SM, Page WA, Partridge R, Pepin M, Phipps A, Ponce F, Poudel S, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Reisetter A, Reynolds T, Roberts A, Robinson AE, Rogers HE, Romani RK, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Scarff A, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Senapati K, Serfass B, So J, Speller D, Stanford C, Stein M, Street J, Tanaka HA, Toback D, Underwood R, Villano AN, von Krosigk B, Watkins SL, Wilson JS, Wilson MJ, Winchell J, Wright DH, Yellin S, Young BA, Zhang X, Zhao X. First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 121:051301. [PMID: 30118251 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.051301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2018] [Revised: 06/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We present the first limits on inelastic electron-scattering dark matter and dark photon absorption using a prototype SuperCDMS detector having a charge resolution of 0.1 electron-hole pairs (CDMS HVeV, a 0.93 g CDMS high-voltage device). These electron-recoil limits significantly improve experimental constraints on dark matter particles with masses as low as 1 MeV/c^{2}. We demonstrate a sensitivity to dark photons competitive with other leading approaches but using substantially less exposure (0.49 g d). These results demonstrate the scientific potential of phonon-mediated semiconductor detectors that are sensitive to single electronic excitations.
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- R Agnese
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana 47722, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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Jih KY, Chung CP, Chang YY, Hung PL, Soong BW, Liao YC, Lan MY, Lee YC. Mutational analysis of CCM1, CCM2 and CCM3 in a Han Chinese cohort with multiple cerebral cavernous malformations in Taiwan. Clin Genet 2018; 94:389-390. [PMID: 29787619 DOI: 10.1111/cge.13377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2018] [Revised: 05/01/2018] [Accepted: 05/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- K-Y Jih
- Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology and Center for Parkinson's disease, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital - Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital - Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology and Center for Parkinson's disease, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital - Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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Lee CY, Ting CC, Wu JH, Lee KT, Chen HS, Chang YY. Dental visiting behaviours among primary schoolchildren: Application of the health belief model. Int J Dent Hyg 2017; 16:e88-e95. [PMID: 28984068 DOI: 10.1111/idh.12319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVES This study aimed to develop and validate a new instrument based on the health belief model and to use the instrument to investigate the determinants of regular dental attendance among primary schoolchildren. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted using a newly developed measurement scale based on the HBM, 4 health-promoting schools participated in the study and 958 students studying in grades 4-6 completed the questionnaire. The psychometric properties of the instrument were analysed, and a path analysis model was used to identify the determinants of regular dental attendance. RESULTS The instrument had good internal consistency (Cronbach's α = 0.826-0.925) and a factor structure identical to HBM. Overall, the schoolchildren's health beliefs on caries treatment were positive. The determinants of regular dental visit were school location (β = -0.13), mother's education level (β = 0.15), susceptibility (β = -0.18) and barriers (β = -0.11). CONCLUSION This study provided evidence that HBM is applicable to children's dental visiting behaviour and their health beliefs towards adherence to caries treatment. Although children had a positive attitude towards dental visits, environmental obstacles would interfere with dental visits. The newly developed instrument could be used to identify high-risk children and help design oral health interventions for these children. Moreover, policy makers should increase the accessibility of dental resources to enhance the utilization of dental care among schoolchildren.
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- C-Y Lee
- Department of Oral Hygiene, College of Dental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.,Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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- School of Dentistry, College of Dental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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- Department of Oral Hygiene, College of Dental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.,Division of Family Dentistry, Department of Dentistry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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- Department of Oral Hygiene, College of Dental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.,Division of Family Dentistry, Department of Dentistry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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- Department of Oral Hygiene, College of Dental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.,Division of Pediatric Dentistry, Department of Dentistry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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- Department of Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics, College of Health Sciences, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.,Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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Tzeng CC, Tsai LP, Chang YK, Hung YJ, Chang YY, Su YP, Jiang JJ, Liang HM. A 15-year-long Southern blotting analysis of FMR1 to detect female carriers and for prenatal diagnosis of fragile X syndrome in Taiwan. Clin Genet 2017; 92:217-220. [PMID: 28139839 DOI: 10.1111/cge.12981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2016] [Revised: 01/24/2017] [Accepted: 01/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Here, we review the results of Southern blotting analyses of the FMR1 gene performed in our reference laboratory in Taiwan over a 15-year period. In total, 725 high-risk women with a family history of fragile X syndrome (FXS) or idiopathic intellectual disability, 3911 low-risk pregnant women without such family history, and prenatal diagnosis data for 32 foetuses from 24 carrier mothers were included. Only 2 carriers were in the low-risk group, which indicated a prevalence of 1 of 1955 women (95% confidence interval: 1/7156-1/539). A total of 100 carriers were found to be in the high-risk group, thus revealing a significantly higher frequency than the low-risk group (100/725 vs 2/3911, P<0.0001). Eight of the 14 foetuses that inherited the maternal mutant allele were verified to have a full mutation, with the smallest maternal pre-mutation allele carrying 56 CGG repeats. The overall findings confirmed that the carrier prevalence among low-risk women in Taiwan is significantly lower than that reported in western countries. Therefore, the most important step for preventing FXS in Taiwan would be to focus on high-risk women by promoting general awareness of this disease and spreading knowledge regarding the benefits of carrier screening and prenatal testing.
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- C-C Tzeng
- Department of Pathology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Tzu Chi General Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan.,School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
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- School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.,Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Tzu Chi General Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Genetics Generation Advancement, Taipei, Taiwan
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- GenePhile Bioscience Laboratory, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Taiwan Medical Laboratory, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Jiang's Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Chien-Shin Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- S-L Lai
- Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Niao-Sung Hsiang, Taiwan.
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- M-Y Lan
- Departments of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Centre, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung County 833, Taiwan
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Chang YY, Wang MZ, Abdesselam A, Adachi I, Adamczyk K, Aihara H, Al Said S, Asner DM, Atmacan H, Aushev T, Babu V, Badhrees I, Bakich AM, Barberio E, Bhuyan B, Biswal J, Bobrov A, Bozek A, Bračko M, Browder TE, Červenkov D, Chekelian V, Chen A, Cheon BG, Chilikin K, Chistov R, Chobanova V, Choi SK, Choi Y, Cinabro D, Dalseno J, Danilov M, Dingfelder J, Doležal Z, Drásal Z, Dutta D, Eidelman S, Farhat H, Fast JE, Ferber T, Fulsom BG, Gaur V, Gabyshev N, Ganguly S, Garmash A, Gillard R, Glattauer R, Goh YM, Goldenzweig P, Greenwald D, Grzymkowska O, Haba J, Hayasaka K, Hayashii H, He XH, Hou WS, Hsu CL, Iijima T, Inami K, Ishikawa A, Itoh R, Iwasaki Y, Jacobs WW, Jaegle I, Joffe D, Joo KK, Kawasaki T, Kim DY, Kim HJ, Kim JB, Kim JH, Kim KT, Kim MJ, Kim SH, Kim YJ, Kinoshita K, Korpar S, Križan P, Krokovny P, Kuhr T, Kumita T, Kuzmin A, Kwon YJ, Lai YT, Lee IS, Li L, Li Y, Libby J, Liventsev D, Lukin P, Masuda M, Matvienko D, Miyabayashi K, Miyake H, Miyata H, Mizuk R, Mohanty GB, Mohanty S, Moll A, Moon HK, Mori T, Nakano E, Nakao M, Nanut T, Nayak M, Nishida S, Ogawa S, Ozaki H, Pakhlov P, Pakhlova G, Pal B, Park CW, Pedlar TK, Pestotnik R, Petrič M, Piilonen LE, Rauch J, Ribežl E, Ritter M, Rostomyan A, Ryu S, Sahoo H, Sakai Y, Sandilya S, Santelj L, Sanuki T, Savinov V, Schneider O, Schnell G, Schwanda C, Seino Y, Senyo K, Seong IS, Sevior ME, Shebalin V, Shen CP, Shibata TA, Shiu JG, Simon F, Sohn YS, Starič M, Stypula J, Sumihama M, Sumisawa K, Sumiyoshi T, Tamponi U, Tanida K, Teramoto Y, Uglov T, Unno Y, Uno S, Usov Y, Van Hulse C, Vanhoefer P, Varner G, Vorobyev V, Vossen A, Wagner MN, Wang CH, Wang P, Watanabe M, Watanabe Y, Williams KM, Won E, Yamaoka J, Yashchenko S, Yelton J, Yusa Y, Zhang ZP, Zhilich V, Zhulanov V, Zupanc A. Observation of B^{0}→pΛ[over ¯]D^{(*)-}. Phys Rev Lett 2015; 115:221803. [PMID: 26650291 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.221803] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We report the first observation of the decays B^{0}→pΛ[over ¯]D^{(*)-}. The data sample of 711 fb^{-1} used in this analysis corresponds to 772×10^{6} BB[over ¯] pairs, collected at the ϒ(4S) resonance by the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e^{+}e^{-} collider. We observe 19.8σ and 10.8σ excesses of events for the two decay modes and measure the branching fractions of B^{0}→pΛ[over ¯]D^{-} and B^{0}→pΛ[over ¯]D^{*-} to be (25.1±2.6±3.5)×10^{-6} and (33.6±6.3±4.4)×10^{-6}, respectively, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. These results are not compatible with the predictions based on the generalized factorization approach. In addition, a threshold enhancement in the dibaryon (pΛ[over ¯]) system is observed, consistent with that observed in similar B decays.
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- Y-Y Chang
- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617
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- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 71451
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow 31-342
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- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 71451
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352
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- Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region 141700
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005
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- King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh 11442
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 71451
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- School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
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- School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010
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- Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 781039
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow 31-342
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
- University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, 121 16 Prague
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München
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- National Central University, Chung-li 32054
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München
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- Gyeongsang National University, Chinju 660-701
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- Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218
- Moscow Physical Engineering Institute, Moscow 115409
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, 121 16 Prague
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, 121 16 Prague
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, 22607 Hamburg
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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- Institute of High Energy Physics, Vienna 1050
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- Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791
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- Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76131 Karlsruhe
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- Department of Physics, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching
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- H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow 31-342
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602
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- Peking University, Beijing 100871
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- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617
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- School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602
- Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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- Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
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- Chonnam National University, Kwangju 660-701
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- Soongsil University, Seoul 156-743
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- Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701
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- Korea University, Seoul 136-713
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- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 305-806
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- Korea University, Seoul 136-713
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- Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701
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- Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791
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- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 305-806
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- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
- University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Ludwig Maximilians University, 80539 Munich
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- Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192-0397
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749
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- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617
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- Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026
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- CNP, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
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- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
- CNP, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218
- Moscow Physical Engineering Institute, Moscow 115409
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005
- Utkal University, Bhubaneswar 751004
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602
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- Osaka City University, Osaka 558-8585
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
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- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Toho University, Funabashi 274-8510
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218
- Moscow Physical Engineering Institute, Moscow 115409
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region 141700
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- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221
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- Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
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- CNP, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
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- Department of Physics, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, 22607 Hamburg
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- Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
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- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne 1015
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- University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48080 Bilbao
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao
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- Institute of High Energy Physics, Vienna 1050
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- Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181
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- Yamagata University, Yamagata 990-8560
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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- School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Beihang University, Beijing 100191
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- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550
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- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching
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- Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
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- H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow 31-342
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192-0397
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- INFN-Sezione di Torino, 10125 Torino
- University of Torino, 10124 Torino
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- Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region 141700
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- Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791
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- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48080 Bilbao
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen
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- National United University, Miao Li 36003
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- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
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- CNP, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
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- Korea University, Seoul 136-713
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352
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- University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
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- Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090
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- J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
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Wu YH, Tsai YW, Chu CH, Liu WC, Chang YY, Chang SL. Inclined-incidence hard-X-ray resonator with ultrahigh efficiency and resolution. Opt Express 2015; 23:9994-10001. [PMID: 25969040 DOI: 10.1364/oe.23.009994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We report a high-efficiency hard-X-ray resonator with inclined-incidence geometry. A beam incident at 36.87° with respect to [3 1 0] excites Bragg back diffraction along (12 4 0) at 14.4388 keV for resonance in a Si-based resonator to produce intense resonance fringes. The experimental results showed the visibility enhanced by nearly 30 times compared with normal incidence. Also numerical calculations of the inclined-incidence resonator demonstrate ultrahigh efficiency and extremely narrow resolving power (sub-meV) with low background. This geometry surpasses the intrinsic limits of normal-incidence crystal-based resonators and enables ultrahigh-resolution X-ray optics for X-ray diffraction, spectroscopy, and imaging applications.
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Chang CC, Hsiao IT, Huang SH, Lui CC, Yen TC, Chang WN, Huang CW, Hsieh CJ, Chang YY, Lin KJ. ¹⁸F-FP-(+)-DTBZ positron emission tomography detection of monoaminergic deficient network in patients with carbon monoxide related parkinsonism. Eur J Neurol 2015; 22:845-52, e59-60. [PMID: 25690304 DOI: 10.1111/ene.12672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2014] [Accepted: 12/15/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although parkinsonism after carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is well known, neurotransmitter deficient networks that are responsible for the severity of parkinsonism have rarely been systemically evaluated. METHODS Eighteen patients with CO-related parkinsonism and nine age- and sex-matched controls were enrolled for detailed neurological examinations, three-dimensional T1-weighted images, diffusion tensor imaging and (18)F-9-fluoropropyl-(+)-dihydrotetrabenzazine ((18)F-FP-(+)-DTBZ) positron emission tomography (PET). The structural analysis included voxel-based morphometry to assess grey matter atrophy and tract-based spatial statistics related to white matter involvement. For presynaptic monoaminergic assessment, volume of interest analysis in six subcortical regions and non-parametric voxel-wise comparison were performed on PET images with estimation of registration parameters from magnetic resonance images. All the imaging modalities were compared between the patients and controls. For the patients, a regression model for correlation with cognitive behaviour and Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) score was used. RESULTS In the patients, monoaminergic deficit networks were found in the caudate, anterior putamen, anterior insular, thalamus and anterior cingulate cortex. The UPDRS revealed significant correlations with the prefrontal white matter fractional anisotropy values and with the (18)F-FP-(+)-DTBZ uptake values in the caudate nucleus, insular, medial prefrontal and dorsomedial thalamus. The neuropsychiatric inventory score correlated with the (18)F-FP-(+)-DTBZ uptake values in the anterior cingulate cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. CONCLUSIONS Our study demonstrated monoaminergic deficits and white matter damage networks in CO-related parkinsonism that determined the severity of parkinsonism or behaviour changes. As the substantia nigra was spared, the monoaminergic topography of involvement suggests a different pathophysiology in CO-related parkinsonism.
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- C-C Chang
- Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Lan MY, Yeh TH, Chang YY, Kuo HC, Sun HS, Lai SC, Lu CS. Clinical and genetic analysis of Taiwanese patients with hereditary spastic paraplegia type 5. Eur J Neurol 2014; 22:211-4. [PMID: 24641183 DOI: 10.1111/ene.12407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2013] [Accepted: 02/07/2014] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Spastic paraplegia type 5 (SPG5) is an autosomal recessive (AR) hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) associated with pure or complicated phenotypes. This study aimed to screen SPG5 in Taiwanese HSP patients. METHODS Sequencing of the SPG5 gene, CYP7B1, was performed in a cohort of 25 ethnic Han Taiwanese patients with AR or sporadic HSP. Clinical information and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were analyzed in confirmed SPG5 patients. RESULTS One (33%) AR kindred and four (18%) sporadic cases had CYP7B1 mutations. All of the SPG5 cases carried the mutation c.334 C>T (R112X). Haplotype analysis suggested a 'founder effect' in ethnic Hans for this mutation. The phenotype was either pure or complicated by cerebellar ataxia. For the primary HSP phenotype, there were profound dorsal column sensory deficits in all patients. Spine MRI showed thoraco-lumbar cord atrophy in some patients. CONCLUSIONS Spastic paraplegia type 5 is a common cause of AR and sporadic HSPs that has a higher frequency in Taiwanese than in other ethnic groups. It is associated with a CYP7B1 founder mutation and its phenotype is characterized by pronounced dorsal column sensory loss, with cerebellar ataxia in some patients.
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- M-Y Lan
- Center for Parkinson's Disease, Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Wang X, Zgadzaj R, Fazel N, Li Z, Yi SA, Zhang X, Henderson W, Chang YY, Korzekwa R, Tsai HE, Pai CH, Quevedo H, Dyer G, Gaul E, Martinez M, Bernstein AC, Borger T, Spinks M, Donovan M, Khudik V, Shvets G, Ditmire T, Downer MC. Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration of electrons to 2 GeV. Nat Commun 2013; 4:1988. [PMID: 23756359 PMCID: PMC3709475 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2012] [Accepted: 05/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Laser-plasma accelerators of only a centimetre’s length have produced nearly monoenergetic electron bunches with energy as high as 1 GeV. Scaling these compact accelerators to multi-gigaelectronvolt energy would open the prospect of building X-ray free-electron lasers and linear colliders hundreds of times smaller than conventional facilities, but the 1 GeV barrier has so far proven insurmountable. Here, by applying new petawatt laser technology, we produce electron bunches with a spectrum prominently peaked at 2 GeV with only a few per cent energy spread and unprecedented sub-milliradian divergence. Petawatt pulses inject ambient plasma electrons into the laser-driven accelerator at much lower density than was previously possible, thereby overcoming the principal physical barriers to multi-gigaelectronvolt acceleration: dephasing between laser-driven wake and accelerating electrons and laser pulse erosion. Simulations indicate that with improvements in the laser-pulse focus quality, acceleration to nearly 10 GeV should be possible with the available pulse energy. Laser-plasma accelerators can produce high-energy electron bunches over just a few centimetres of distance, offering possible table-top accelerator capabilities. Wang et al. break the current 1 GeV barrier by applying a petawatt laser to accelerate electrons nearly monoenergetically up to 2 GeV.
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- Xiaoming Wang
- University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, Texas 78712-1081, USA
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Cangoz S, Chang YY, Chempakaseril SJ, Guduru RC, Huynh LM, John JS, John ST, Joseph ME, Judge R, Kimmey R, Kudratov K, Lee PJ, Madhani IC, Shim PJ, Singh S, Singh S, Ruchalski C, Raffa RB. Vitamin D and type 2 diabetes mellitus. J Clin Pharm Ther 2012; 38:81-4. [PMID: 23216626 DOI: 10.1111/jcpt.12026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2012] [Accepted: 10/25/2012] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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WHAT IS KNOWN AND OBJECTIVE The deleterious effect of vitamin D deficiency on bone health has long been known. More recent studies suggest a deleterious effect of low vitamin D (hypovitaminosis D) on general health. And specific studies propose an association between hypovitaminosis D and the aetiology and progression of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Given a commonly assumed lack of toxicity of vitamin D, routine measurement of plasma vitamin D and supplementation is rapidly becoming accepted general practice. COMMENT Authoritative practice guidelines have raised the level of vitamin D that is to be considered minimal for optimum health. This recommendation was based on a wealth of information and definitive evidence for skeletal benefits of vitamin D, but there was a lack of compelling evidence that hypovitaminosis D is causally related to extra-skeletal health outcomes such as diabetes. Hence, vitamin D supplementation for the purpose of achieving a level consistent with good health is evidence based, but measurement and supplementation for the purpose of preventing or treating T2DM is not. WHAT IS NEW AND CONCLUSION Although the maintenance of adequate vitamin D levels is desirable for all patients, we conclude that routine measurement of vitamin D level in every patient or initiating high-dose supplementation for the purpose of preventing or treating T2DM is not evidence based.
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- S Cangoz
- School of Pharmacy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Wang YM, Chang Y, Chang YY, Cheng J, Li J, Wang T, Zhang QY, Liang DC, Sun B, Wang BM. Serotonin transporter gene promoter region polymorphisms and serotonin transporter expression in the colonic mucosa of irritable bowel syndrome patients. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2012; 24:560-5, e254-5. [PMID: 22435794 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2012.01902.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND The role of serotonin transporter (SERT) gene polymorphism in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has been demonstrated. However, the expression of SERT mRNA and proteins in the colonic mucosa with different 5-HTT gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) genotypes remains unknown. We examined SERT mRNA and protein levels in colon biopsies from patients with different 5-HTTLPR genotypes and evaluated the links between the polymorphism and the expression levels. METHODS Two hundred and fifty-four patients with IBS and 120 healthy subjects were studied. DNA samples were extracted from peripheral blood and genotyped by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). SERT mRNA and protein levels were evaluated by quantitative real time PCR and western blotting. The promoter efficiency of the serotonin transporter promoter (SERT-P) was evaluated with luciferase reporter system. KEY RESULTS The frequency of the L/L genotype in C-IBS group was significantly higher than that in the control and D-IBS. However, the S/S genotype in D-IBS was significantly higher than that in C-IBS. The transcriptional efficiency of the L/L genotype was significantly higher than that in the L/S and S/S genotype. Patients with the L/L genotype demonstrated increased production of the SERT protein when compared with L/S and S/S patients. The l variant increased SERT promoter activity by 2.43-fold when compared with the s variant. CONCLUSIONS & INFERENCES Polymorphism in the promoter region of the SERT gene can influence the expression of SERT mRNA and the levels of the SERT protein in the colonic mucosa, thereby playing a key role in motility-related symptoms of IBS patients.
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tianjin Medical University Hospital, Tianjin, China
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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the validity of a surgically created interproximal periodontal defect in dogs. MATERIALS AND METHODS Surgery was performed in the interproximal area between the maxillary second and third premolars in two beagle dogs. Following an incision and reflection of the gingival flap, a 3-mm wide and 5-mm high defect was prepared surgically at the interproximal area. A thorough root planing was performed and the flap was coronally positioned and sutured. The contra-lateral area was served as the control with no surgical intervention. After 8 weeks of healing, the animals were killed and the defect was analysed histometrically and radiographically. RESULTS The interproximal periodontal defect resembled a naturally occurring defect and mimicked a clinical situation. After healing, the defect showed limited bone (0.89±0.02mm) and cementum regeneration (1.50± 0.48mm). CONCLUSIONS Within the limitations of this pilot study, the interproximal periodontal defect showed limited bone and cementum regeneration. Thus, it can be considered as a standardized, reproducible defect model for testing new biomaterials.
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- Department of Periodontology, Research Institute for Periodontal Regeneration, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
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Lan MY, Fu MH, Liu YF, Huang CC, Chang YY, Liu JS, Peng CH, Chen SS. High frequency of ETFDH c.250G>A mutation in Taiwanese patients with late-onset lipid storage myopathy. Clin Genet 2011; 78:565-9. [PMID: 20370797 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2010.01421.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Lipid storage myopathies (LSMs) are characterized pathologically by the accumulation of lipid droplets in muscle fibers due to impaired cellular lipid metabolism. The purpose of this study was to determine etiologies and genetic mutations associated with LSMs in ethnic Han Taiwanese. The usefulness of the blood acylcarnitine (AC) profile for diagnosing LSMs in adult patients was also investigated. Nine patients were diagnosed with late-onset LSMs following a review of muscle biopsies and medical records and were recruited retrospectively. Genetic studies were performed to detect mutations in the SLC22A5 for primary carnitine deficiency, PNPLA2 for neutral lipid storage disease with myopathy, ABHD5 for neutral lipid storage disease with ichthyosis, ETFDH for multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenation deficiency (MADD), and CPT2 for carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency. Blood AC levels were measured by tandem mass spectrometry. The mutation c.250G>A in ETFDH was detected in seven (78%) patients, six of whom were homozygous for the variant. Patients with ETFDH mutations had elevated blood levels of ACs ranging from C8 to C16 species, a pattern consistent with MADD. ETFDH c.250G>A mutation is common in Taiwanese patients with late-onset LSMs. The blood AC profile is a sensitive biochemical marker for diagnosing MADD arising from ETFDH mutations in adults.
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- M-Y Lan
- Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital - Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Chang CY, Huang CK, Chang YY, Tai CM, Lin JT, Wang JD. Prospective study of health-related quality of life after Roux-en-Y bypass surgery for morbid obesity. Br J Surg 2010; 97:1541-6. [PMID: 20645295 DOI: 10.1002/bjs.7179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity on health-related quality of life (QOL) during the first year of follow-up. METHODS The World Health Organization Quality of Life-Brief (WHOQOL-BREF) was administered 1 month before operation, and at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after surgery. Body mass index, co-morbidities and operation-related complications were measured at these times. A mixed-effect model was constructed to analyse repeated measurements and determine the relationships between body mass index, WHOQOL-BREF scores and other variables. RESULTS A total of 102 patients were enrolled. The mixed-effect model showed that the physical, psychological and social domains improved after bariatric surgery, with simultaneous reduction in weight and improvement in co-morbidities. There was a dip in scores in physical and psychological domains 3-6 months after surgery, significantly related to complications. All patients gradually improved between 6 and 12 months after surgery, reaching levels similar to those of healthy subjects. CONCLUSION Health-related QOL improved dramatically after bariatric surgery, dipped slightly between 3 and 6 months, and improved again up to the end of the first year.
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- C-Y Chang
- Department of Internal Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Chang YY, Cronan JE. An Escherichia coli mutant deficient in pyruvate oxidase activity due to altered phospholipid activation of the enzyme. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 81:4348-52. [PMID: 16593486 PMCID: PMC345586 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.81.14.4348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The pyruvate oxidase (pyruvate:ferricytochrome b(1) oxidoreductase, EC 1.2.2.2) of Escherichia coli is markedly activated by phospholipids in vitro. To test the physiological relevance of this activation, we isolated an E. coli mutant producing an oxidase that is deficient in activation by (and binding to) phospholipids. The mutant oxidase could be fully activated by a specific proteolytic cleavage, indicating that the catalytic site is normal. The mutant enzyme functions poorly in vivo, indicating that activation of the oxidase by phospholipids plays an important physiological role.
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- Y Y Chang
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, 131 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin, Urbana, IL 61801
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Lipopolysaccharide isolated from colicin E2-sensitive Escherichia coli and from "receptor-minus" mutants inhibits the activity of colicin E2. Lipid A and the polysaccharide fraction obtained by mild acid hydrolysis of lipopolysaccharide are inactive either alone or when tested in combination. Periodate oxidation of lipopolysaccharide destroys over 85% of its inhibition activity.
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- Y Y Chang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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Chang YY, Chen SY, Wu HH, Weng SC, Chu CH, Lee YR, Tang MT, Stetsko Y, Shew BY, Yabashi M, Chang SL. Diffraction-enhanced beam-focusing for X-rays in curved multi-plate crystal cavity. Opt Express 2010; 18:7886-7892. [PMID: 20588629 DOI: 10.1364/oe.18.007886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Unusual x-ray focusing effect is reported for parabolic curved multi-plate x-ray crystal cavities of silicon consisting of compound refractive lenses (CRL). The transmitted beam of the (12 4 0) back reflection near 14.4388 keV from these monolithic silicon crystal devices exhibits extraordinary focusing enhancement, such that the focal length is reduced by as much as 18% for 2-beam and 56% for 24-beam diffraction from the curved crystal cavity. This effect is attributed to the presence of the involved Bragg diffractions, in which the wavevector of the transmitted beam is bent further when traversing several curved crystal surfaces.
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- Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, ROC 300 Taiwan
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Chang CC, Chang YY, Chang WN, Lee YC, Wang YL, Lui CC, Huang CW, Liu WL. Cognitive deficits in multiple system atrophy correlate with frontal atrophy and disease duration. Eur J Neurol 2009; 16:1144-50. [PMID: 19486137 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2009.02661.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Dementia remains an exclusion criterion in diagnosing multiple system atrophy (MSA). This study aimed to determine the cognitive changes and brain atrophy patterns in the Parkinsonian (MSA-P) and cerebellar (MSA-C) variants of MSA. METHODS Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and neuro-psychological tests were applied to 10 MSA-C and 13 MSA-P patients, and compared to 37 age-matched controls. Correlation analyses were performed between cognitive test results and morphometric data extracted from the VBM data. RESULTS In neuro-psychological testing, the 23 MSA patients scored lower in the Stroop interference test and took longer in the trail-making test as compared with the controls, whereas MSA-C performed worse than MSA-P in the memory scores, Stroop test, and time to complete the trail-making test. MSA, as a group, showed atrophy in the cerebellum, insular cortex, fusiform gyrus, inferior orbito-frontal gyrus, superior temporal gyrus, and caudate nucleus. Memory scores correlated well with pre-frontal lobe atrophy but not in the insular area. CONCLUSION In conclusion, although dementia is not a typical presenting feature of MSA and is regarded as a sub-cortical movement disorder, frontal atrophy, cognitive changes, and dementia are identifiable as MSA progresses.
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- C C Chang
- Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Lan MY, Chang YY, Chen WH, Kao YF, Lin HS, Liu JS. Serotonin transporter gene promoter polymorphism is associated with body mass index and obesity in non-elderly stroke patients. J Endocrinol Invest 2009; 32:119-22. [PMID: 19411808 DOI: 10.1007/bf03345699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND The serotonergic system is involved in the complex behavioral and physiological process in maintaining energy balance. Genetic factors regulating serotonergic function may have links with the development of obesity. AIM To investigate whether the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism of the serotonin transporter gene is associated with body mass index (BMI) and obesity in stroke patients. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study included 376 patients (65.3+/-11.3 yr; male, 61.7%) with stroke. Associations between the 5-HTTLPR and BMI and obesity (BMI > or = 25 kg/m2) were examined in all subjects. In order to test age-dependent effects of the genetic variant, the association was also examined in the non-elderly subgroup (<65 yr) and the elderly subgroup (> or =65 yr) respectively. RESULTS For non-elderly subjects, the SS genotype was independently associated with increased BMI level (beta=1.84, p=0.037) and obesity (odds ratio 4.17, 95% CI 1.25-14.0, p=0.021) when the LL genotype was used as the reference. The association was not found for all patients or in the elderly subgroup. The LS genotype was not different from the LL genotype in BMI level or risk of obesity, either for all subjects or with regard to the non-elderly and elderly subgroups. CONCLUSIONS The SS genotype of 5-HTTLPR is an independent determinant of increased BMI level and obesity in non-elderly stroke patients but not in elderly patients. An age-dependent modification for the effect of the 5-HTTLPR on development of obesity is considered.
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- M Y Lan
- Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Niaosung, Taiwan
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Li TH, Lan MY, Liu JS, Tseng YL, Wu HS, Chang YY. TYPE II PROATLANTAL INTERSEGMENTAL ARTERY ASSOCIATED WITH OBJECTIVE PULSATILE TINNITUS. Neurology 2008; 71:295-6. [DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000318276.07527.70] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Chang CC, Liu JS, Chang YY, Chang WN, Chen SS, Lee CH. (99m)Tc-ethyl cysteinate dimer brain SPECT findings in early stage of dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease patients: a correlation with neuropsychological tests. Eur J Neurol 2007; 15:61-5. [PMID: 18042240 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2007.02001.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We examined clinical presentations, neuropsychological findings, and perfusion patterns of (99m)Tc-ethyl cysteinate dimer (ECD) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in patients with early stage dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) (n = 17) and Parkinson's disease (PD) (n = 16), with age-matched healthy controls (n = 10). Seven paired regions of interest (ROIs) were drawn manually including inferior frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital, parieto-occipital junction, striatum and thalamus for semiquantitative measurement. Neuropsychological tests were applied for clinical correlation. The SPECT results showed significant hypoperfusion in DLB group in frontal, parietal, thalamus, temporal ROIs compared with controls (P < 0.01) whilst signals in temporal areas was significantly reduced compared with PD group (P < 0.05). Neuropsychological tests showed that DLB patients had deficits in mental manipulation, short-term memory, abstract thinking, drawing and semantic verbal fluencies (P < 0.05, compared with control). In addition, DLB group had lower scores than those with PD in mental manipulation, drawing and semantic verbal fluency (P < 0.05). Our study showed that even in early stages of DLB, neuropsychological and perfusion patterns were evident and may be different from PD group, despite they shared certain similarities both in neuropsychological and image findings compared with age-matched controls.
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- Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Fang CT, Chang YY, Hsu HM, Twu SJ, Chen KT, Lin CC, Huang LYL, Chen MY, Hwang JS, Wang JD, Chuang CY. Life expectancy of patients with newly-diagnosed HIV infection in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy. QJM 2007; 100:97-105. [PMID: 17277317 DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcl141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Limited data are available on the life expectancy of patients with newly-diagnosed HIV infection in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). AIM To provide such an estimate using a semi-parametric projection. DESIGN Statistical analysis. METHODS Follow-up data for patients newly diagnosed with HIV infection in Taiwan (HIV/AIDS Cohort) from 1 May 1997 to 30 April 2003 (n = 3351, only 1% are injecting drug users) were analysed using the Kaplan-Meier method. The survival function for an age- and gender-matched reference population was generated by the Monte Carlo method from the life-table of the general population. A constant excess hazard model was used to project long-term survival of HIV-infected patients, with linear extrapolation of a logit-transformed curve of survival ratio between HIV-infected patients and the reference population. RESULTS The 5-year survival rate was 58% in patients who had already developed AIDS at diagnosis (AIDS group), and 89% in those who had not (non-AIDS group). Extrapolation yielded an expected mean survival time of 10.6 years after diagnosis for the AIDS group, and 21.5 years after diagnosis for the non-AIDS group. DISCUSSION Our results support the expansion of HIV screening programs to minimize delay in diagnosis. With continuing advances in HAART, this estimate of survival in initially asymptomatic patients may be conservative. Their long life expectancy raises questions about what kind of preventive heath services should be offered. These should be addressed through further analysis of overall benefit and cost-effectiveness.
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- C T Fang
- Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7 Chung San South Road, Taipei, Taiwan
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In this study, as a promising technique for the treatment of both As(III) and As(V) at the same time in a single reactor, a column reactor containing both manganese-coated sand (MCS) and iron-coated sand (ICS), at different configuration of MCS and ICS, was used to treat wastewater contaminated with As(III). Prior to column experiments, batch experiments for the adsorption of As(V) by ICS were performed with variation of solution pH, ionic strength and types of background ions to investigate the effect of these parameters on the As(V) adsorption behaviour. As(V) adsorption onto ICS was quite similar with the variation of ionic strength by using NaNO3 as a background ion as well as in the presence of different types of background ions except phosphate. The adsorption curves shifted to the lower pH region with the increase of the initial arsenic concentration due to the finite number of adsorption sites on the ICS. For model prediction on the adsorption of As(V) onto ICS, the MINEQL program employing an inner-sphere complexation and a diffuse layer model was used. Model predictions generally agreed well with experimental results. From the column test, column system packed with equal ratio of MCS and ICS was identified as the best system due to a promising oxidation efficiency of As(III) to As(V) by MCS and adsorption of As(V) by both MCS and ICS.
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- J K Yang
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea.
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Chang YY, Kim KS, Jung JH, Yang JK, Lee SM. Application of iron-coated sand and manganese-coated sand on the treatment of both As(III) and As(V). Water Sci Technol 2007; 55:69-75. [PMID: 17305125 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2007.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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: 05/14/2023]
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In this study, manganese-coated sand (MCS) and iron-coated sand (ICS) were applied in the oxidation of As(III) and adsorption of As(V), respectively. ICS and MCS were prepared by mixing FeCl3 and Mn(NO3)2, respectively, with Joomoonjin sand at 150 degrees C. In the batch adsorption isotherms, adsorption of As(III) and As(V) onto ICS followed a Langmuir type. ICS showed a greater capacity in the removal of As(V) than As(III) and also in the removal of As(V) compared with MCS. Three different configurations of ICS and MCS were used to investigate the oxidation of As(III) and adsorption of As(V) in a column. In the homogenised system, arsenic breakthrough was approximately two-times delayed compared with the separately packed systems. After breakthrough of arsenic, concentration of As(III) in the effluents was below 40 ppb for the entire reaction period in all configurations, and most arsenic was identified as As(V) owing to near complete conversion of As(III) to As(V) by MCS. The catalytic activity of MCS on the oxidation of As(III) was maintained up to 700 pore volumes, which corresponds to the treatment of at least 300 mg As(III) based on the 1 kg MCS. Compared with the homogenised column, the released Mn(II) concentration from two-staged and four-staged columns was great for the entire reaction period. In the case where the same amount of ICS and MCS was packed in a filtration system, the homogenised column was identified as a better configuration compared with the two-staged and four-staged columns when considering the arsenic breakthrough time as well as the released concentration of Fe(III) and Mn(II).
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Wolgye-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-701, Korea.
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BACKGROUND The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between marriage-related risk factors during maternal pregnancy and subsequent development of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). METHODS The research design was a retrospective case-control study. The case group included 60 patients that fulfilled the ADHD criteria of Fourth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). The controls were normal children randomly selected and matched for their sex and age. Their biological mothers completed a questionnaire about marital adaptation, marital satisfaction and the incidence of stressful life events during pregnancy. RESULTS The results showed that the incidence of positive life events, marital adaptation and marital satisfaction during maternal pregnancy was significantly lower in the case group, and conditional logistic regression analysis showed that marital adaptation during pregnancy and pregnancy before marriage were important risk factors for ADHD. CONCLUSION Negative emotion during maternal pregnancy may be an important risk factor for ADHD.
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- C-Y Lee
- Graduate Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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Su CF, Chang YY, Pai HH, Liu IM, Lo CY, Cheng JT. Mediation of beta-endorphin in exercise-induced improvement in insulin resistance in obese Zucker rats. Diabetes Metab Res Rev 2005; 21:175-82. [PMID: 15386812 DOI: 10.1002/dmrr.496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND Aerobic exercise including treadmill running has long been used to successfully treat and/or prevent insulin resistance and type-2 diabetes. Increase of plasma beta-endorphin is observed with exercise. The present study was designed to clarify the role of endogenous beta-endorphin in exercise-induced improvement in insulin resistance. METHODS We used a moderate exercise program consisting of treadmill running at 20 m/min and 0% grade for 1 h/day, 7 days/week, for 8 weeks. Plasma glucose concentration was assessed by the glucose oxidase method. The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was performed to quantify the plasma level of beta-endorphin-like immunoreactivity (BER). The glucose disposal rate (GDR) was measured by the hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp technique. Changes of the insulin signaling in isolated soleus muscle were then detected by immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting. RESULTS An increase of plasma BER in parallel with the reduction of plasma glucose was obtained in exercise-trained obese Zucker rats. Different from a marked reduction in sedentary obese rats, the value of insulin-stimulated GDR obtained from the exercised obese rats was reversed to near that of the sedentary lean group, eight weeks after the last period of exercise. This effect of exercise was inhibited by naloxone or naloxonazine at doses sufficient to block opioid micro-receptors. Signaling-related defects in the soleus muscle of sedentary obese Zucker rats, which impaired glucose transporter subtype 4 (GLUT 4), included decreased phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate (IRS)-1, as well as an attenuated p85 regulatory subunit of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3 kinase) and Akt serine phosphorylation. In contrast, exercise training failed to modify the levels of insulin receptor (IR), IRS-1, and IR tyrosine autophosphorylation in obese Zucker rats. CONCLUSION Enhanced insulin sensitivity via exercise training might be mediated by endogenous beta-endorphin through an increase of postreceptor insulin signaling related to the IRS-1-associated PI3-kinase step that leads to the enhancement of GLUT 4 translocation and improved glucose disposal in obese Zucker rats.
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- C F Su
- Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, ROC
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Wang JT, Chen YC, Chang SC, Chen ML, Pan HJ, Chang YY, Sun CC, Wang LH, Wang SH, Lin HC, Chien SF, Tseng MS. Control of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a hospital: a five-year experience in a Taiwanese teaching hospital. J Hosp Infect 2004; 58:97-103. [PMID: 15474179 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2004.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2003] [Accepted: 05/11/2004] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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In order to prevent transmission of hospital-acquired vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), the infection control team (ICT) of the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) introduced practical guidelines from January 1997 to June 2000. All patients at NTUH found to be infected or colonized with VRE were placed in strict contact and cohort isolation. Surveillance cultures were obtained from other patients in close proximity in order to determine any spread of VRE. If identified, these patients were also placed in contact and cohort isolation, and their isolates were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing and molecular typing by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. During this period, 20 patients were found to have VRE. Based on typing results, there were three occasions where the same VRE strain had spread between index patients and roommates or patients staying in neighbouring rooms. No further spread occurred after applying strict contact isolation for these patients. The hospital-acquired VRE infection rate was around 0.03 to 0.09 per 1000 discharges during the intervention period. After July 2000, however, members of the ICT did not actively monitor or implement any interventions to control VRE. The rate then increased to 0.20 per 1000 discharges in 2001. This study suggests that interventions for the control of VRE, based on the guidelines from the Hospital Infection Control Practice Advisory Committee, are effective for control of VRE spread. Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in an increase in hospital-acquired VRE.
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan
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In an attempt to probe the effect of beta-endorphin on insulin resistance, we used Wistar rats that were fed fructose-rich chow to induce insulin resistance. Insulin action on glucose disposal rate (GDR) was measured using the hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp technique, in which glucose (variable), insulin (40 mU/kg/min), and beta-endorphin (6 ng/kg/min) or vehicle were initiated simultaneously and continued for 120 min. A marked reduction in insulin-stimulated GDR was observed in fructose-fed rats compared to normal control rats. Infusion of beta-endorphin reversed the value of GDR, which was inhibited by naloxone and naloxonazine each at doses sufficient to block opioid mu-receptors. Opioid mu-receptors may therefore be activated by beta-endorphin to improve insulin resistance. Next, soleus muscle was isolated to investigate the effect of beta-endorphin on insulin signals. Insulin resistance in rats induced by excess fructose was associated with the impaired insulin receptor (IR), tyrosine autophosphorylation, and insulin receptor substrate (IRS)-1 protein content in addition to the significant decrease in IRS-1 tyrosine phosphorylation in soleus muscle. This impaired glucose transportation was also due to signaling defects that included an attenuated p85 regulatory subunit of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) and Akt serine phosphorylation. However, IR protein levels were not markedly changed in rats with insulin resistance. beta-endorphin infusion reversed the fructose-induced decrement in the insulin-signaling cascade with increased GDR. Apart from IR protein levels, infusion of beta-endorphin reversed the decrease in protein expression for the IRS-1, p85 regulatory subunit of PI3-kinase, and Akt serine phosphorylation in soleus muscle in fructose-fed rats. The decrease in insulin-stimulated protein expression of glucose transporter subtype 4 (GLUT 4) in fructose-fed rats returned to near-normal levels after beta-endorphin infusion. Infusion of beta-endorphin may improve insulin resistance by modulating the insulin-signaling pathway to reverse insulin responsiveness.
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- C-F Su
- Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, ROC
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Wang SH, Sheng WH, Chang YY, Wang LH, Lin HC, Chen ML, Pan HJ, Ko WJ, Chang SC, Lin FY. Healthcare-associated outbreak due to pan-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a surgical intensive care unit. J Hosp Infect 2003; 53:97-102. [PMID: 12586567 DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2002.1348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Acinetobacter baumannii is ubiquitous and has recently become one of the most important healthcare-associated (HA) pathogens in hospitals. Infection caused by this organism often leads to significant morbidity and mortality. Outbreaks of pan-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (PDRAB) have rarely been reported. During a two-month period, an outbreak of PDRAB colonization and infection affecting 7 patients occurred in our surgical intensive care unit (SICU). The colonized sites were respiratory tract (N = 7) and central venous catheter (N = 2). One of the patients had a surgical wound infection. Extensive environmental contamination was identified, including sites such as bed rails, bedside tables, surface of ventilators and infusion pump, water for nasogastric feeding and ventilator rinsing and sinks. All of the isolates were analysed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and showed an identical pattern. After use of strict cohort nursing, hand hygiene environmental cleaning, and replacement of a dysfunctional high-efficiency particulate air filter (HEPA), the outbreak was controlled.
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- S H Wang
- Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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Chen WH, Kao YF, Lan MY, Chang YY, Liu JS. A perturbation of antithrombin-III and protein C coupling associates with an increase of anti-beta2-glycoprotein I antibody in non-antiphospholipid antibody syndrome cerebral ischemia. Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis 2002; 13:703-9. [PMID: 12441909 DOI: 10.1097/00001721-200212000-00006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Anti-beta -glycoprotein I antibody (abetaGPI) has been recognized in raising the risk of cerebral ischemia in patients with antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS), especially by protein C (PC) axis perturbation. Although a high potential is also seen in non-APS patients, the mechanism is substantially unknown. In the present study, we examined the effect of abetaGPI on PC and antithrombin-III (AT-III) activity in non-APS patients with non-cardiac cerebral ischemia (NCCI). A total of 111 NCCI patients and 30 healthy controls were enrolled. They were free of APS manifestation, and their anticardiolipin antibody and lupus anticoagulant tests were within normal range. There were 14.4% patients found to have an abnormal increase of blood abetaGPI. The PC, AT-III, albumin, aminotransferases, creatinine, prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time did not differ between our patients and controls, or patients with or without increased abetaGPI. However, a marked decrease of the PC/AT-III ratio was found in patients with increased abetaGPI. The correlation between PC and AT-III activity was highly significant in patients with an increase of abetaGPI (P = 0.001), only marginal in controls (P = 0.042), and was insignificant in patients with a normal abetaGPI (P = 0.277). The abetaGPI did not correlate to PC or AT-III activity in either patients or controls. These findings suggest that high PC/AT-III coupling may relate to NCCI in non-APS patients associated with an increase of abetaGPI. This coupling effect seems not to be caused by abetaGPI directly.
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- W H Chen
- Stroke Biology Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Chia JS, Chang LY, Shun CT, Chang YY, Tsay YG, Chen JY. A 60-kilodalton immunodominant glycoprotein is essential for cell wall integrity and the maintenance of cell shape in Streptococcus mutans. Infect Immun 2001; 69:6987-98. [PMID: 11598074 PMCID: PMC100079 DOI: 10.1128/iai.69.11.6987-6998.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have demonstrated previously by Western blotting that in naturally sensitized humans, the serum or salivary antibody response to Streptococcus mutans was directed predominantly to a protein antigen with a size of approximately 60-kDa. To identify this immunodominant antigen, specific serum antibodies were eluted from immunoblots and five positive clones with inserts ranging in length from 3 to 8 kb from identical chromosomal loci were obtained by screening a genomic expression library of Streptococcus mutans GS-5. Amino acid sequencing established the identity of this immunodominant antigen, a 60-kDa immunodominant glycoprotein (IDG-60), to be a cell wall-associated general stress protein GSP-781, which was originally predicted to have a molecular mass of approximately 45 kDa based on the derived nucleotide sequence. Discrepancy in the molecular mass was also observed in recombinant his-tagged IDG-60 (rIDG-60) expressed from Escherichia coli. Glycosylation, consisting of sialic acid, mannose galactose, and N-acetylgalactosamine, was detected by lectin binding to IDG-60 in cell wall extracts from S. mutans and rIDG-60 expressed in vivo or translated in vitro. Despite the presence of multiple Asn or Ser or Thr glycosylation sites, IDG-60 was resistant to the effect of N-glycosidase F and multiple O-glycosidase molecules but not to beta-galactosidase. Insertional inactivation of the gene encoding IDG-60, sagA, resulted in a retarded growth rate, destabilization of the cell wall, and pleiomorphic cell shape with multifold ingrowth of cell wall. In addition, distinct from the parental GS-5 strain, the isogenic mutant GS-51 was unable to survive the challenge of low pH and high osmotic pressure or high temperature. Expression of the wild-type gene in trans within GS-51 from plasmid pDL277 complemented the growth defect and restored normal cell shape. These results suggested that IDG-60 is essential for maintaining the integrity of the cell wall and the uniformity of cell shape, both of which are indispensable for bacteria survival under stress conditions.
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- J S Chia
- Graduate Institute of Microbiology, College of Medicine National Taiwan University, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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The epitope recognized by a mouse monoclonal antibody (MAb) to the crystalline surface layer protein of Rickettsia typhi, SRT10, was mapped to 10 amino acid residues (SRTag TFIGAIATDT). The oligonucleotide sequence covering the epitope recognized by SRT10 was inserted into a mammalian expression vector together with multiple cloning sites. When the SRTag was fused in frame to the coding region of the NCC27/CLIC1 gene and expressed in mammalian cells, the MAb SRT10 could detect the tagged protein by immunoblotting, immunocytochemistry, and immunoprecipitation. In addition to the SRT-NCC27/CLIC1, SRT10 could detect N-terminal-tagged MEF2D and C-terminal-tagged CD4 by immunocytochemistry. We suggest that this specific recognition of the SRTag by SRT10 is generally applicable to cellular and molecular biology research that requires the expression and detection of fusion proteins.
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- J R Lee
- Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea
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Lu KY, Pan SM, Lee LL, Shia LY, Chang YY. The influence of professional commitment on turnover intention. Kaohsiung J Med Sci 2001; 17:364-71. [PMID: 11593963] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023] Open
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This study investigated the influence of professional commitment on turnover intentions of nurses. The study also examined the relationships between demographic data, work-related variables and the professional commitment. The self-administered questionnaires were distributed to one fifth of Southern Taiwan's population of nurses (n = 4,000). A total of 2,543 subjects completed the questionnaires with a 63.6% response rate. The nurses exhibited a medium-high degree of overall professional commitment. Age, salary, years in profession and years in organization were correlated significantly with professional commitment by Pearson's correlation. There were significant correlations between professional commitment and marital status, educational level, status of the youngest child, level of position, and family support in Spearman's correlations. Family support, age, level of position and status of hospital were the significant predictors in the final regression analysis model. The discriminant analysis showed that 45.4% of nursing professional commitment was correctly classified in predicting intention to leave the profession and 33.1% in predicting the intention to leave the organization. The study recommended that nursing professional commitment is an important moderator to affect the turnover intention of staff nurses.
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- K Y Lu
- Department of Nursing, Meiho Institute of Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Huang CY, Fujimura M, Chang YY, Chan PH. Overexpression of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase attenuates acute activation of activator protein-1 after transient focal cerebral ischemia in mice. Stroke 2001; 32:741-7. [PMID: 11239196 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.32.3.741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been implicated in reperfusion injury after focal cerebral ischemia (FCI). ROS are known to regulate the activity of transcription factors such as activator protein-1 (AP-1), which is a dimer consisting of members of the Jun and Fos families. We investigated the role of ROS in AP-1 activity after FCI using transgenic mice that overexpressed copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) and that had reduced infarction volume after FCI. METHODS The SOD1 transgenic mice and their wild-type littermates were subjected to middle cerebral artery occlusion and reperfusion by intraluminal suture blockade. After 60 minutes of middle cerebral artery occlusion, mice were allowed to recover for 1, 2, and 4 hours before euthanasia. Protein expression of c-Jun and c-Fos was examined by immunohistochemistry and Western blotting. AP-1 DNA-protein binding activity was assessed by electrophoretic mobility shift assays. RESULTS In wild-type mice, immunohistochemistry demonstrated acute c-Jun and c-Fos activation in ischemic cortex and its outer boundary. Expression of both was reduced in SOD1 transgenic mice. Western blotting confirmed that SOD1 overexpression was associated with reduced c-Jun and c-Fos protein levels in ischemic brain. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays revealed that the ischemia-enhanced DNA binding activity observed in wild-type mice was reduced in SOD1 transgenic mice. Supershift assays indicated that c-Jun participated in the bound AP-1 complex. CONCLUSIONS SOD1 overexpression prevents early activation of AP-1 after transient FCI in mice. This may block the expression of downstream target genes that are injurious, thereby reducing the infarction volume after transient FCI in mice.
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- C Y Huang
- Department of Neurosurgery, Program in Neurosciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305-5487, USA
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Huang YT, Lin HC, Chang YY, Yang YY, Lee SD, Hong CY. Hemodynamic effects of synephrine treatment in portal hypertensive rats. Jpn J Pharmacol 2001; 85:183-8. [PMID: 11286401 DOI: 10.1254/jjp.85.183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Synephrine, a sympathomimetic alpha1-adrenoceptor agonist, has been shown to induce dose-dependent portal hypotensive effects after acute intravenous infusion. The present study was undertaken to investigate the hemodynamic effects of 8-day administration of synephrine in portal hypertensive rats. Portal hypertension was induced by either partial portal vein ligation (PVL) or bile duct ligation (BDL). Portal hypertensive rats were allocated into one of two groups: vehicle group (0.1 N HCl, 0.5 ml/12 h) or synephrine group (1 mg/kg per 12 h), with 7 rats in each group. Synephrine or vehicle was administered by gavage into PVL and BDL rats for 8 consecutive days. Systemic as well as splanchnic hemodynamic parameters were measured thereafter. Synephrine significantly ameliorated the hyperdynamic state in both PVL and BDL rats. The portal venous pressure in PVL and BDL rats (-13.5% and -10.1%, respectively), portal tributary blood flow (-19.5% and -20.4%) and cardiac index (-12.1% and -18.8%) were significantly reduced, while mean arterial pressure (10.4% and 23.4%) and systemic (26.3% and 51.0%) as well as portal territory (47.1% and 67.7%) vascular resistance were enhanced by treatment of synephrine as compared with vehicle treatment. Our results showed that eight-day administration of synephrine exerted beneficial hemodynamic effects in two models of portal hypertensive rats.
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- Y T Huang
- Institute of Traditional Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Wang JT, Chang SC, Ko WJ, Chang YY, Chen ML, Pan HJ, Luh KT. A hospital-acquired outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection initiated by a surgeon carrier. J Hosp Infect 2001; 47:104-9. [PMID: 11170773 DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2000.0878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become an important hospital-acquired pathogen, infection with which often leads to major morbidity and mortality. The principal mode of transmission for MRSA is transfer of the organism from a carrier or infected patient to uninfected patients by the hands or clothing of staff. From January 16 1997 to April 2 1997, five patients who had undergone open-heart surgery in a hospital located in northern Taiwan, developed surgical wound infections and mediastinitis caused by MRSA. All patients were hospitalized in two adjacent surgical intensive care units (ICUs) following their respective operations. Consequently, the hospital's infection control team commenced investigation of the outbreak. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) has been shown to be a good technique for epidemiological typing. By analysing cultures taken from staff by PFGE, it was demonstrated that this outbreak was most likely to be initiated by a surgeon with MRSA carriage. After elimination of the carrier state using topical mupirocin treatment, the outbreak was controlled without further incident.
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- J T Wang
- Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Fe0-mediated reductive destruction of hazardous organic compounds such as chlorinated organic compounds (COCs) and nitroaromatic compounds (NACs) in the aqueous phase is one of the latest innovative technologies. In this paper, rapid reductive degradation of COCs and NACs by synthesized nanoscale Fe0 in anaerobic batch systems was presented. The nanoscale Fe0, characterized by high specific surface area and high reactivity, rapidly transformed trichloroethylene (TCE), chloroform (CF), nitrobenzene (NB), nitrotoluene (NT), dinitrobenzene (DNB) and dinitrotoluene (DNT) under ambient conditions, which results in complete disappearance of the parent compounds from the aqueous phase within a few minutes. GC analysis reported that the main products of the dechlorination of TCE and CF were ethane and methane as well as that most of the nitro groups in NACs were reductively transformed to amine groups. These results suggest that the rapid reductive destruction by nanoscale Fe0 is potentially a viable in situ or aboveground treatment of groundwater contaminated with hazardous organic compounds including COCs and NACs.
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- S Choe
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Environment Remediation Research Center, Seoul, South Korea
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Lu KY, Chang YY, Chiou SL. [Changes in nursing professional commitment among junior college graduates]. Hu Li Yan Jiu 2001; 9:28-38. [PMID: 11548213] [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: 02/21/2023]
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The purposes of this longitudinal study were to understand the changes in professional commitment from nursing students before graduation to registered nurses one year and two years after their graduation, and to find the relationship among these changes, work backgrounds and organizational satisfaction. The sample consisted of 890 junior college graduates. The Nursing Professional Commitment Scale was used for data collection at the first and the second test, while work backgrounds and organizational satisfaction were included at the third test. The data were analyzed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation, correlation and repeated measure ANOVA statistical methods. The results showed that: (1) The average scores of the three tests were 2.96, 2.84 and 2.79, with a full point scale of 4. (2) There were positive correlations among the three tests of professional commitments; also, positive correlation was shown between organizational satisfaction and professional commitment on the third test. (3) The scores for overall nursing professional commitment decreased significantly one year after graduation, but there was no significant changes from one year to two years after graduation. (4) There was a significant relationship between the changes in professional commitment and grades of hospital, but no significant relationship with job category or work unit. (5) Organizational satisfaction influenced the decrease in professional commitment from nursing students before graduation to two years after graduation; it also changed professional commitment from one to two years after graduation significantly. The author suggests that nursing educators and administrators should be concerned with changes in the professional commitment of nurses so as to increase nurses' organizational satisfaction.
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- K Y Lu
- School of Nursing, Mei-Ho Institute of Technology, Taiwan, ROC
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are implicated in reperfusion injury after focal cerebral ischemia (FCI). Reactive oxygen species regulate activity of transcription factors like NF-kappaB. The authors investigated the role of ROS in NF-kappaB activity after FCI using transgenic mice that overexpressed human copper/zinc-superoxide dismutase (SOD1) and that had reduced infarction volume after FCI. Superoxide dismutase transgenic and wild-type mice were subjected to 1 hour of middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) and subsequent reperfusion. Immunohistochemistry showed SOD1 overexpression attenuated ischemia-induced NF-kappaB p65 immunoreactivity. Colocalization of NF-kappaB and the neuronal marker, microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs), showed that NF-kappaB was up-regulated in neurons after FCI. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that SODI overexpression reduced ischemia-induced NF-kappaB DNA binding activity. Supershift assays showed that DNA-protein complexes contained p65 and p50 subunits. Immunoreactivity of c-myc, an NF-kappaB downstream gene, was increased in the ischemic cortex and colocalized with NF-kappaB. Western blotting showed that SOD1 overexpression reduced NF-kappaB and c-Myc protein levels in the ischemic brain. Colocalization of c-Myc and TUNEL staining was observed 24 hours after FCI. The current findings provide the first evidence that SOD1 overexpression attenuates activation of NF-kappaB after transient FCI in mice and that preventing this early activation may block expression of downstream deleterious genes like c-myc, thereby reducing ischemic damage.
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- C Y Huang
- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA
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Chang YY, Cronan JE. Conversion of Escherichia coli pyruvate oxidase to an 'alpha-ketobutyrate oxidase'. Biochem J 2000; 352 Pt 3:717-24. [PMID: 11104678 PMCID: PMC1221509] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
Abstract
Escherichia coli pyruvate oxidase (PoxB), a lipid-activated homotetrameric enzyme, is active on both pyruvate and 2-oxobutanoate ('alpha-ketobutyrate'), although pyruvate is the favoured substrate. By localized random mutagenesis of residues chosen on the basis of a modelled active site, we obtained several PoxB enzymes that had a markedly decreased activity with the natural substrate, pyruvate, but retained full activity with 2-oxobutanoate. In each of these mutant proteins Val-380 had been replaced with a smaller residue, namely alanine, glycine or serine. One of these, PoxB V380A/L253F, was shown to lack detectable pyruvate oxidase activity in vivo; this protein was purified, studied and found to have a 6-fold increase in K(m) for pyruvate and a 10-fold lower V(max) with this substrate. In contrast, the mutant had essentially normal kinetic constants with 2-oxobutanoate. The altered substrate specificity was reflected in a decreased rate of pyruvate binding to the latent conformer of the mutant protein owing to the V380A mutation. The L253F mutation alone had no effect on PoxB activity, although it increased the activity of proteins carrying substitutions at residue 380, as it did that of the wild-type protein. The properties of the V380A/L253F protein provide new insights into the mode of substrate binding and the unusual activation properties of this enzyme.
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Affiliation(s)
- Y Y Chang
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, B103 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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