Anxiety: An overlooked confounder in the characterisation of chronic stress-related conditions?

• Monet Viljoen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Physiological Sciences, Science Faculty, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Rohan M. Benecke,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiological Sciences, Science Faculty, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Lindi Martin,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Rozanne C. M. Adams,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physiological Sciences, Science Faculty, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Flow Cytometry and Imaging Unit, Central Analytical Facility, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Soraya Seedat,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Carine Smith

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: csmith@sun.ac.za

  Affiliation Department of Physiological Sciences, Science Faculty, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5924-9204

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