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Original Article

Autonomic response to an experimental psychological stressor in healthy subjects: measurement of sympathetic, parasympathetic, and pituary-adrenal parameters: test-retest reliability

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Pages 823-829 | Received 02 Dec 1990, Accepted 26 Apr 1990, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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