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Maintenance of normal muscle mass requires some minimal level of ongoing work activity, and building and maintaining muscle mass is most effectively done through phasic contractions.
In the CT 100 mM NaCl elicited a strong phasic response which quickly returned to the level of spontaneous activity, while in the NG it elicited both a phasic and a small tonic response.
For example, phasic and tonic behavior of gastrointestinal smooth muscles has been attributed to different expression levels of caldesmon and caldesmon-binding proteins, but not to differences in the relative proportions of myosin, actin, calponin, and tropomyosin [ 1 2 ] . Arteries and veins of different vascular beds are primarily composed of tonic smooth muscles.
1), IMP gave significantly larger both phasic and tonic responses in the CT than in the NG.
We think that the difference in accessibility to the taste buds innervated by CT and NG is probably not the whole explanation, because the NG responses to NH4Cl, NaCl and citric acid, displayed a similar phasic component as their responses in the CT.