Many people who work with vibrating power tools develop a syndrome that starts with pain and evolves to include tingling or numbness and sensitivity to cold. Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee think they’ve discovered a key effect of the vibrations: combined squeezing and twisting of arterial cells to the breaking point.
SQUEEZED. Vibration-triggered vacuole (V) is separated from its parent arterial-wall cell (P) by a fragile neck (arrow).
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