Adding an adjuvant drug to local anesthesia (LA) has been a method of choice to lower the dose of LA and improve safety. Epinephrine is one such commonly used adjuvant, along with local anesthetics. It provides benefits such as reduced systemic absorption of LA, decreased systemic toxicity, postoperative bleeding, and prolonged duration of action of LA. Which of the following mechanisms of action is responsible for the above-mentioned effect of adjuvants?
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