The phrase "allowed us to activate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the permission or capability to initiate or turn on something, often in a technical or operational context.
Example: "The new software update allowed us to activate the advanced features that enhance user experience."
Alternatives: "enabled us to activate" or "permitted us to activate".
Finally, the use of applied magnetic fields allowed us to activate naive T cell populations, which were otherwise poorly responsive to stimulation.
The use of organotypic slices also allowed us to activate the cells in a controlled way by applying LPS for 24 h (which was not possible in acute slices as they do not survive for 24 h).
This allowed us to activate either ChR2 or NpHR3.0 individually or together.
We focused our design on recognition of distance and geometry as the simplest parameters to achieve site selectivity, which has allowed us to activate CH bonds at remote sites that are previously not accessible.
Eighty-three healthy subjects (42 men, 41 women) participated in this study where we examined pain perception of two tonic heat pain stimulation (thermode) separated by a 2 minute cold pressor test (CPT) (7 °C, 10 °C or 12 °C) which allowed us to activate DNIC.
We focus on the diagonal S = -T, and study the evolutionary outcome with selective rewirings of the original network, which allow us to activate or deactivate correlations for high or low degree nodes (see Methods).
Using the Gene- Switch line allows us to activate the RNA-hairpin construct after development has finished, minimizing pleiotropic results.
Although the parvalbumin-positive interneurons recruited by this manipulation are typically active during the CA3-dominant phases of theta (Lasztóczi and Klausberger, 2014), causal control allows us to activate them synchronously at arbitrary times during the theta cycle.
Thus the conditions we used in our analysis allowed us to specifically activate these two stress pathways independently.
We show using PIEZO1/PIEZO2 chimeras that the N-terminal region of PIEZO1 allowed us to measure pressure activated currents in excised patches from N2a cells, in which a large portion of Piezo1 gene had been deleted (Supplementary Fig. 3).
The experimental design employed here allowed us to distinguish brainstem areas activated by milk ingestion from those activated by suckling action in rat pups.
