Sympathoimmune Anomalies Underlying the Response to Stressful Challenge in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Spectrum Disease
Barry E. Hurwitz, PhD,
Kimberly A. Brownley, PhD,
Sarosh J. Motivala, PhD,
John R. Milanovich, PhD,
Jeffrey L. Kibler, PhD,
Lise Fillion, PhD,
William G. LeBlanc, PhD,
Mahendra Kumar, PhD,
Nancy G. Klimas, MD,
Mary Ann Fletcher, PhD and
Neil Schneiderman, PhD
From the Behavioral Medicine Research Center (B.E.H., K.A.B., S.J.M., J.R.M., J.L.K., L.F., W.G.L., N.S.), Department of Psychology (B.E.H., K.A.B., S.J.M., J.R.M., J.L.K., L.F., N.S.), Department of Biomedical Engineering (B.E.H.), University of Miami, Miami, Florida; Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism (B.E.H., N.S.), Department of Psychiatry (M.K., N.S.), Department of Immunology and Microbiology (N.G.K., M.A.F.), School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.

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Figure 1. Regression lines depicting the relationship between speech-induced catecholamine (X axis) and immunocellular reactivity (Y axis) in the HIV-seronegative (closed circles) and HIV-seropositive (open squares) groups.
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