The phrase "altered to control" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something has been modified or changed in order to exert influence or manage a situation.
Example: "The software was altered to control the system's performance more effectively."
Alternatives: "modified for regulation" or "adjusted for management".
A type of papaya has been modified to be resistant to a crippling virus, and corn has been altered to control insects that attack it.
Bottom stress is highly sensitive to the final height of piston down-stroke, a variable that can be altered to control the range of friction velocities.
The resistance in this upstream current loop was altered to control the current and "dial-in" the extent of analyte oxidation, and thus, the abundance and nature of the oxidized analyte ions observed in the mass spectrum.
These physicochemical properties can be altered to control their biodistribution.
Hence, spermidine and spermine concentrations are altered to control the timing of central components of the oxidative stress response.
Furthermore, proteins beyond the scope of our array involved in transport and metabolite synthesis may be altered to control the total available pools of NADPH and glutathione.
Blood gas analysis revealed that PaO2 mmHg, PaCO2 mmHg and SaO2 were significantly (P≤0.001) altered compared to control.
Chromosome 7 did not contain any genomic clusters of misregulated genes and therefore, we did not expect the genomic localization of chromosome 7 loci to be altered compared to control fibroblasts.
The overall subcellular localization of the vesicles did not seem to be altered compared to control cells.
Interestingly, the morphology of the Golgi in cells expressing Ub-EEA1 was dramatically altered compared to control cells.
For paediatric cancer cell line TTC466, expression of 2 exon probes was consistently and significantly altered compared to control samples, these are Ciz1-ex1c and Ciz1-ex3.
