The phrase "a late response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when acknowledging that a reply or answer is being given after a delay or after the expected time frame.
Example: "I apologize for a late response; I was out of the office for several days."
Alternatives: "a delayed reply" or "a tardy response".
Ino4p; a transcription factor required for de-repression of inositol-choline-regulated genes involved in phospholipid synthesis was responsible for this onset of a late response in the upper down-regulated branch.
Nevertheless, only OeCBF3 showed a steady increase in its expression after 10 days of cold treatment, suggesting that OeCBF3 might be responsible for inducing COR gene expression, showing a late response to cold stress (Table 1 and Fig. 6B).
Most of the surface responsive genes identified in our study (96%) showed a late response, appearing as differentially expressed after 14 hours growth (Table 1).
Thirst is a late response of the body to fluid depletion.
It said in a late response to Babcock's statement that a tie-up would represent a "retrograde step" in VT's strategy.
But several analysts said the rush to hire and train linguists was a late response to a dire shortage that had been apparent throughout the government for years.
These four genes constitute a late-response cluster specific to falling ethanol levels with an expression spike at BAC4 and return to baseline at BAC5.
They observed two response patterns: (1) an early-response group in which responses appeared within the first 2 weeks after the first dose of rituximab; (2) a late-response group characterized by an increase in platelets several weeks after rituximab.
For example, miR-146 and miR-155 are highly expressed within 2 h after LPS treatment and are thus early-response miRNAs, whereas miR-21 is expressed in macrophages at a later time after LPS treatment and is thus a late-response miRNA [ 6, 8, 9, 19– 21, 63].
On that last topic, the authors advise that "it's always better to send a hideously late response — even an inadequate one — rather than none at all, if you have any interest in maintaining a relationship".
Metadherin (MTDH, also known as AEG-1, and Lyric), was first reported in 2002 as a novel late response gene following HIV-1 infection or treatment with recombinant HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (gp120) [1].
