As an excited zone in the cortical cytoskeletal gel layer moves, the previous excited zone relaxes back to its resting state, a process during which water molecules surrounding the Na+-bound form are released upon Ca2+-binding, with two moles of Na+ exchanged per mole of Ca2+ bound.

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