"serve as a trigger for" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to act as a catalyst or instigator for a certain action or event. Example: The sudden change in weather served as a trigger for the avalanche, causing massive destruction in the mountain village.
He said the new standard would "serve as a trigger for taking action".
These results suggest that Mfng-mediated repression of Notch signaling could serve as a trigger for endocrine islet differentiation.
The magnetite-filled samples were prepared to allow the investigation of magnetic induction-based heating to serve as a trigger for the thermally activated SMP.
Dr. Mima, a professor of system information science at Future University, said that the smell of coffee seemed to serve as a trigger for informal communication, possibly because of the cultural meaning associated with coffee in everyday life.
An excessive release of pro-inflammatory cytokines can increase the production of reactive oxygen species and thereby serve as a trigger for oxidative stress in tissues [28].
The vagaries of commodity markets often serve as a trigger for violence, unrest or even civil war in the developing world.
Confounding results can occur when the antibiotic itself serves as a trigger for growth arrest, causing drug-induced persistence31 and sometimes paradoxical lower killing at high drug concentration32.
Researchers found that when water temperatures heat up for corals, fish "tempers" cool down, providing the first clear evidence of coral bleaching serving as a trigger for rapid change in reef fish behavior.
It is likely that such intraocular inflammation in our cases may have served as a trigger for PVR.
These include, very rarely, serving as a trigger for democratization, and more commonly, serving as downstream guarantor for departing autocrats or as downstream consolidator of democracy.
An alternative possibility is that the linker peptide released from the β-hairpin serves as a trigger for the activation of the 7-TM domain.
