The phrase "a total decrease in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a complete reduction or decline in a particular quantity or aspect.
Example: "The report indicated a total decrease in sales over the last quarter, prompting the management to reevaluate their marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "a complete reduction in" or "an overall decline in".
The reduction of PGC1α may not only lead to impaired function but to a total decrease in the number of mitochondria [39].
Accordingly, at a torque of 30 Nm, a total decrease in contact area of 12.7% can be derived, as can a decrease in force of 17.2%.
This represents a total decrease in costs per client of 17% after 3 months and 39% in the second period of 3 months.
Studies from other algae have shown that high salt concentrations may decrease the proportions of unsaturated fatty acids, as well as a total decrease in TAG content (Ben-Amotz et al., 1985; Chen et al., 2008).
Nevirapine also decreased the elimination clearance of dihydroartemisinin, but not to the same extent as the decrease in bioavailability of artemether, resulting in a total decrease in the exposure to dihydroartemisinin.
Moreover, in contrast to the adenoviral vector, a short (2 h) pretreatment of 4 T1 cells with a low dose of 5-FU (13 μg ml−1) slightly inhibited alphaviral infection, with a total decrease in fluorescence of approximately 10-15% compared with infected cells not treated with 5-FU (not shown).
Relative to untreated controls, a 34% total decrease in tumour DHceramides was observed post-Photofrin.
a, b, Variable importance (total decrease in node impurities) results from the machine-learning algorithm, random forests, for each variable for drought sensitivity (a) and drought coupling (b) metrics.
Our measurements show a stepwise total decrease of 0.08 per mille in the average triple-oxygen-isotope value of shales across the Archaean Proterozoic boundary.
There was a trend for a decrease in total discharge catheterisation rates (2.9%to1.6.6%) (p=0.111).
In addition, prolonged TGF-β1 treatment induced a decrease in total Smad2 and/or total Smad3 in some cell lines.
