The phrase "activate as a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the initiation of a function or role within a system or process.
Example: "To begin the process, you need to activate as a user in the application."
Alternatives: "function as a" or "operate as a".
A possible explanation is that the functional connectivity would be the first step leading to increased activation in a region that would activate as a compensatory mechanism.
Dr. Golub and colleagues at the Broad Institute have developed a "Connectivity Map," which profiles drugs by the genes they activate as a way to find new uses for existing drugs.
Voltage-gated calcium (Cav) channels activate as a function of membrane potential such that the probability of opening increases with membrane depolarization, but with prolonged depolarization the channels transit to a closed, inactivated state that can be both voltage and calcium dependent.
The value dual is assigned if a KEGG relation has both an activating as well as an inhibiting subtype.
In other words, i has an activating as well as an inhibiting influence on another component j.
The repairman gets activated as soon as a machine fails, i.e., N-policy is not taken into account.
This suggests that bone turnover is activated as soon as a minimal mineral loss has occurred.
Calcium chloride (Merck, India) was used as an activating as well as impregnating agent.
ERK1/2 may be activated as a consequence of aberrant activation of upstream signaling molecules or during development of drug resistance following treatment with kinase inhibitors such as those for PI3K or BRAF.
Accumulating data suggest that autophagy is activated as a compensatory mechanism upon proteasome activity is impaired.
Long-term, but not acute, loss of Cdk5 led to decreased p25 levels, suggesting that Cdk5/p25 may be activated as a homeostatic mechanism to attenuate epileptiform activity.
