TAP reading note: Seven robust and easy to obtain biomarkers to measure acute stress
Negative affect, heart rate, electrodermal responses and four cytokine measures changed in the same direction on both days. Cortisol AUCi was not significantly different from zero. The results concern sensitivity to acute stress, not whole-system recovery.
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What the study found
Negative affect, heart rate, electrodermal responses and four cytokine measures changed in the same direction on both days. Cortisol AUCi was not significantly different from zero. The results concern sensitivity to acute stress, not whole-system recovery.
Scope & limitations
101 participants on day one; 48 tested with another social stressor on day two.
Group-level repeatability does not establish stable individual ranking: only plasma IL-22 showed a significant across-day rank correlation among the seven selected markers. No universal recovery panel was validated.
Population & sample
101 participants on day one; 48 tested with another social stressor on day two.
Exposure or intervention
Standardized acute social stress on two consecutive days.
Outcomes
Affect, autonomic signals, cortisol and plasma/salivary cytokines.
Time frame
Two-day protocol; repeated pre/post-stressor measurements.
Research funding
TNO Early Research Program Body–Brain Interaction. Acknowledgements also credit Quanterix staff for help developing salivary cytokine assays.
Research conflicts of interest
The authors declare no competing interests.
Reading scope
University-hosted full text: methods, Tables 1–2, results on repeated responses, discussion and declarations. Individual data were not reanalysed.
References
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TAP-RDN-0098 · v1.0 · English
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