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State, Not Scar · claim VASO-C050 · Mechanism rung · The latch-bridge

Vascular smooth muscle exhibits hysteresis: two vessels under identical present inputs can be in different contractile states depending on their history over the preceding hour. (True if a preparation's force under a fixed stimulus depends on its prior stimulation sequence.)

Not featured in the current editionAI-extractedorigin: report 2026-09-09-inbox-vasocomputation-031907

source anchor

[p. 9]

“signals can be in different states depending on what happened”

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