  The high quality data provided by helioseismology, solar neutrino flux
measurements, spectral determination of solar abundances, nuclear reactions
rates coefficients among other experimental data, leads to the highly accurate
prediction of the internal structure of the present Sun - the standard solar
model. In this talk, I have discussed how the standard solar model, the best
representation of the real Sun, can be used to study the properties of dark
matter, for which two complementary approaches have been developed: - to limit
the number of theoretical candidates proposed as the dark matter particles,
this analysis complements the experimental search of dark matter, and - as a
template for the study of the impact of dark matter in the evolution of stars,
which possibly occurs for stellar populations formed in regions of high density
of dark matter, such as stars formed in the centre of galaxies and the first
generations of stars.
