The phrase "are sensitive to specific" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how something reacts or responds to particular factors or conditions.
Example: "The researchers found that the cells are sensitive to specific wavelengths of light, which affects their growth."
Alternatives: "are responsive to particular" or "react to certain".
Various cathode materials are sensitive to specific spectral regions, such as ultraviolet, infrared, or visible light.
Especially for bird species that are sensitive to specific land-use types or to small-scaled habitat features, a grain size of 1 3 m seems most promising.
The change in the pH can be monitored by pH-sensitive fluorescent dyes which are sensitive to specific ionophores, like gramicidin, which eliminates the transmembrane proton gradient (Fig. 5, [36]).
The first hierarchy of neurons which are sensitive to specific edges and blobs receive information in the visual cortex [89] while brain regions further down the visual pipeline are sensitive to more complex structures such as faces.
Their results showed that most neurons in both primary and nonprimary auditory fields are sensitive to specific combinations of pitch, timbre, and location.
Instruments which are designed to derive utilities from patient samples, such as the EQ-5D or Health Utilities Index, may not have items or response options that are sensitive to specific medical conditions, events, or treatment attributes [ 42].
Experimentally, mutagenicity is assessed by Ames test performed on Salmonella typhimurium bacterial strains where each bacterial strain is sensitive to specific chemical mutagen [2].
Lohia, like Paz and Mukerjee, aimed for a non-imitative model of development that was sensitive to specific social and economic experiences and ecologies.
Production of IFN-α was sensitive to specific inhibitors of endocytosis and endosomal acidification and was resistant to virus inactivation.
These data suggested that negatively selected neutrophils presented with a varying degree of baseline ROS activity which, however, was sensitive to specific positive triggering, while positively selected cells could only be activated by the supra-agonistic trigger PMA.
The results suggest that only a subgroup of migraineurs is sensitive to specific weather conditions.
