The phrase "acting as trigger" is not entirely correct; it should be "acting as a trigger." You can use it when describing something that initiates or causes a reaction or event.
Example: "The sudden noise was acting as a trigger for her anxiety."
Alternatives: "serving as a trigger" or "functioning as a trigger."
Merikangas and colleagues [17], in a prospective study, supported the idea that anxiety induces or facilitates the onset of a primary headache, acting as trigger for the subsequent development of a mood disorder such as depression.
First, high sugar levels may exacerbate warm ischaemic damage, with the resulting tissue injury acting as trigger for rejection.
However, DGCs and PDEs acting as trigger enzymes seems such a simple, yet powerful principle to confer locality to c-di-GMP signalling that we expect it to be rather widespread.
What insults/injuries acting as triggers lead the organism to determine its own fate, that is, to become dormant but viable or commit suicide?
Given that the apomictic A.monanthes clade and related lineages show strong patterns of reticulate evolution, it is possible that these processes may be acting as triggers for retrotransposon activity leading to the range of 1C x-values observed.
In a longitudinal study where almost 40% of patients experienced persistence of an insomnia syndrome, there was a connection with menopausal symptoms and fatigue, acting as triggers for the development of insomnia [99,100].
The moves are intended to underline the alliance's commitment to the collective defence of all its members – including the Baltic States of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, which, like Ukraine, have significant Russian-speaking minorities as well as acting as a "trigger" in the event of any aggression.
In another chapter Mr. Berger reports that NASA's Mars Pathfinder project bolstered the sales of Mars bars simply by acting "as a trigger that reminded people of the candy," and that Cheerios gets more word of mouth than Disney World (even though the Magic Kingdom is presumably a more interesting topic) because so many more people eat the cereal every day than go to Disney World.
The clinical course of the patient suggests that CH, SUNCT and HC have a common pathophysiological mechanism including hyperactivation of the trigemino-vascular reflex, while the central pathway acting as pain trigger could be different.
A qualitative study by Haley et al. (2014) suggested that HIV stigma negatively influenced many aspects of respondents' lives, including acting as a trigger for substance use and impairing one's ability to prioritize HIV care.
An Afghan boy is currently serving a five-year jail term for planting an improvised explosive device (IED) and acting as a "trigger man", in the area around the time of Cpl Curley's death.
