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Normally, exposure to the cold causes your core temperature to fall.
Conversely, cold causes contraction of the vessels and initiates shivering, thereby conserving heat in the first instance and generating it in the second.
We walk a couple of hundred yards down Mill Brook to get to our blinds, and sometimes I carry a plastic bag that I fill with watercress, which will be available until bitter cold causes it to die.
This "cold water shock response" begins below 15C, and is responsible for most drownings in the UK (where the average water temperature is 10C) – most often, the shock of the cold causes people to inhale water, but it can also prompt heart attacks.
Whether and how cold causes changes in cell-membrane or lipid rafts remain poorly characterized.
During winter, low temperatures overcome the vernalization requirement and trigger a quantitative flowering response, so that longer exposure to cold causes more rapid flowering until the vernalization response is saturated after several weeks at low-temperatures [16] [19].
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The heating system had failed after the cold caused a pipe to burst.
They found that mice with flu – like the common cold, caused by a virus – were helped to recover and survive when they were fed.
The key to improving forecasting, Dr. Adams said, is understanding the surface layer, where sun and cold cause the snow crystals to change.
In February, a bout with the flu led him to suspend his Sunday television program, and two months later a bad cold caused another suspension.
Severe osmotic stresses, salinity, drought, and cold, cause detrimental changes in cellular components.
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