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IT has been assumed that two different contractile systems are present in the vascular muscle: the phasic system for transient regulatory tension and the tonic system for continuous tension. The tension of the latter seems to depend on the concentration of potassium in the muscular cells1. This opinion has been confirmed during physiological and biochemical investigations2–4.
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KULBERTUS, H. Effect of Different Vasomotor Agents on the Visco-elastic Behaviour of Arteries of the Muscular Type. Nature 199, 1193–1194 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1991193a0
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