The phrase "activate a specific" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the initiation or enabling of a particular function, feature, or process.
Example: "To proceed with the setup, you need to activate a specific module in the software."
Alternatives: "enable a particular" or "turn on a specific".
Finally, the wave of reverberant activation stops when it fails to activate a specific set of cells in Area 3 strongly enough so as to allow self-sustained activation to continue.
These, in turn, activate a specific 'ER stress' signalling pathway dependent on a peculiar IREα-TRAF2 activation.
It is encoded in specific neuroanatomical sites that activate a specific repertoire of cognitive, behavioral and physiologic phenomena.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) involves the administration of a photosensitizer, followed by local illumination of a tumor with a laser (of the appropriate wavelength) to activate a specific drug.
The researchers found that reprogramming appeared to activate a specific component of the telomerase enzyme, a discovery that they hope to use to develop new treatments for this and other telomerase-related diseases.
An APC-mimetic scaffold that was engineered to activate a specific type of CAR-T cell was able to generate higher numbers of the modified T cells over longer periods of culture than analogously designed expansion beads, and the resulting cells were similarly effective in killing the lymphoma cells in the mice.
This one is triggered by the accumulation of oxidation damaged products (mainly proteins) that induces UPR and activates a specific p53 pathway that depends on the p66Shc redox activity and the p44 short isoform.
A second drug, xamoterol, which activates a specific subset of norepinephrine receptors, had the same effect.
The resulting studies, published in 2004 and 2006, found that people who solved puzzles with insight activated a specific subset of cortical areas.
Normally, a specific sound frequency activates a specific population of hair cells located at a specific position within the cochlea.
Since adenosine also inhibits the final cholinergic motoneurone, by activating a specific purine receptor8,9, we have tested whether it, too, can induce a distinct dependence in this neurone.
