The phrase "altered against" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could potentially be used in contexts discussing changes made in opposition to something, but clarity is essential.
Example: "The policy was altered against the recommendations of the committee."
Alternatives: "changed in opposition to" or "modified contrary to".
For patients in each subgroup, we identified significantly altered genes against the remaining samples based on the network-smoothed alteration data by SAM (SAM significance analysis of microarrays was originally designed for identifying differentially expressed genes) [ 47].
Cecil's was the handwriting that (on one hitherto unexplored document) corrected the damningly altered evidence against Mary; Cecil it is who, in Guy's words, "should have hung his head in shame".
Especially, the sulfated xylomannans S1F1 and S2F1 possessed altered activity against HSV-1 and HSV-2 compared to the parental compound (F1) and that too in the absence of drug-induced cytotoxicity.
Substitution with electron withdrawing group also altered potency against HIV-1 RT, halogen groups like chloro substituted compounds (5h, 5i and 5j) followed the pattern in decreasing order of potency ortho > meta > para.
The LAMP-1 knockout mice display a mild phenotype, and apart from mild regional astrogliosis and altered immunoreactivity against cathepsin D in the brain, all tissues in the mouse are similar to controls [28].
These observations provide no evidence to suggest altered defence against bacterial or viral infection.
In a plot of representative lipids from significantly altered clusters against liver-fat content (Fig. 2), each of the lipids in the lipid triplet was significantly correlated with liver-fat content.
But Syracuse altered its approach against Colgate's smaller lineup.
But they altered their arguments against Senator John McCain, vowing that it was not a day for partisan politics.
