Mechanisms of vasoconstriction with direct skin cooling in humans.

direct skin cooling causes a vasoconstriction partly dependent on α2-adrenergic function. In in vitro studies, this is a manifestation of reactive oxygen species stimulating Rho and Rho kinase to cause translocation of α2C-receptors from the Golgi to the plasma membrane. In this issue of American

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