The phrase "altered to respond" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes made to something in order to enable it to react or reply in a certain way.
Example: "The software was altered to respond more quickly to user inputs, improving overall performance."
Alternatives: "modified to react" or "adjusted to reply".
Civics-How, if at all, have social services (for example, health care, health insurance, welfare, social security, public housing, estate laws) been altered to respond to increasing life spans in humans?
The mice in the study were genetically altered to respond to the drug, but a company that van Deursen co-founded and a separate group of researchers have already discovered compounds that can kill senescent cells in unmodified mice.
Because of their intrinsically altered capacity to respond to IFN- γ and TNF- α, psoriatic keratinocytes express a plethora of inflammatory mediators, involved in the chronicization of the local immune responses.
"I am confident through that policing will continue to protect the public but how services may look and be delivered will have to alter – both to respond to the financial challenges we are facing and to new and growing threats like child sexual exploitation and online crime," he added.
He used the best tropes of Twitter: he responded to actual events in real time, he spaced his tweets out to parallel our lived experience, and he altered his feed to respond to reader reactions.
We wondered how the TGF- β signaling pathway accomplishes the flexibility in its responses and which and how many parameters have to be altered for cells to respond differently.
However, we have to accept that, in some circumstances, this might have to be altered in order to respond to situations, for example, if there have been a number of ward closures and there is pressure for hospitals to reopen to provide services.
In response to these cytokines, ILCs may alter their phenotype to respond to the environment.
Our results suggest that N-linked glycosylation sets the threshold of TNF receptor signaling by modifying ligand-receptor interactions and that cells may alter this modification to respond appropriately to physiological cues.
The company said it decided to alter the policy to respond in part to new guidelines from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which investigates workplace discrimination.
It is clear that they represent an important mechanism by which cells can rapidly alter gene expression to respond to potentially lethal stress however the mechanisms underlying this response remain unproven.
