The phrase "appears to be activated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a state or condition that seems to be in effect or functioning, often in technical or observational contexts.
Example: "The system appears to be activated, as indicated by the green light on the control panel."
Alternatives: "seems to be enabled" or "looks to be turned on".
The slow AHP appears to be activated, at least in part, by increases in the intracellular concentration of Na+.
These observations suggest that unlike its relatively quiescent state in the normal cornea, IKKβ appears to be activated in the corneal epithelial cells after injury.
Thus, p38MAP kinase appears to be activated by NET4/TMEM53 knockdown and mediates most of the NET4/Tmem53 effects on the cell cycle.
Our integrative analysis identified that TGF−β signaling through SOX4 or TGFBI appears to be activated in GBM compared with normal brain tissues.
However, CovR can also act as a transcriptional activator in streptococci, either directly or indirectly [17], [33]; and in the case of S. mutans, one such gene that appears to be activated by CovR is SMU.1882.
Caspase-8 is another caspase that, like caspase-9, appears to be activated upstream of caspase-3 and in addition has been implicated possibly to play a role in the cell death associated with neurodegenerative paradigms.
Unlike apoptotic cells, no endogenous nuclease activity appeared to be activated in primary necrotic cells and chromatin was only degraded when incubated with NHS but not with Hi-NHS (Fig. 1g and k).
These two enzymes thus appear to be activated through the comprehensive effects of several activators with low specificities, physiologically, although it is possible that they have unknown activators with higher specificities.
By contrast, both ALKM1166R and ALKF1174I appeared to be activated in a ligand-independent manner and led to robust activation of downstream targets, such as ERK and STAT3, in a manner similar to the ALKF1174S mutation.
Specifically, various biological processes related to inflammatory or immune cell activation and inflammation pathways such as CXC-chemokine receptors appeared to be activated via altered acetylation levels of H3K27 occurring after exposure to PM2.5.
These FOXO transcription factors were also enriched in genes that appeared to be activated by MeCP2, according to Nott.
