The truth is more sinister, though: bosses are merely activating lower-level staffers to do the dirty work for them.
In this type of reproduction, the sperm produced by males do not unite with the haploid female egg but merely activate it to begin development.
Nevertheless, it is very well possible that ASC and NLRP3 play other roles in the mechanical ventilation-induced inflammatory cascade than merely activating caspase-1.
To avoid legal snares around public performance and distribution, Vertigo connects in to users' Spotify Premium accounts and merely activates songs that those users already have a right to listen to.
This suggests that information regarding other people rather than merely activating motor commands, primes decision-making tendencies and affects their speed when we make choices in uncertain situations.
10 For example, merely activating elderly stereotypes leads people to slow their gait.
One approach uses a similar fMRI mental imagery paradigm, yet requires the patient to merely activate the brain's attention network, decreasing the amount of imaging time required to assess command following and communication [ 12, 22].
Suggesting that olfactory signals do not contain navigational information, but merely activate an unknown 'non-olfactory map system', Jorge et al., deny even this remaining sensory basis of pigeon homing and thus drop back to a zero point of any understanding of goal-oriented avian navigation.
It has also been reported that merely activating the immune system, such as by adoptive T cell transfer using a conventional lymphoblastoid cell line-reactivated preparation [ 38, 39], or by vaccination with dendritic cells [ 40, 41], might be inadequate for immunotherapy, and may result in up-regulation of IFNγ and/or TNFα production, leading to IDO expression in tumor cells [ 41].
This suggests that formaldehyde does not merely activate TRPA1.
