The phrase "an increased breakdown" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a rise in the frequency or severity of a failure or collapse in a system, process, or structure.
Example: "The recent data indicates an increased breakdown in communication between departments, leading to project delays."
Alternatives: "a heightened failure" or "an escalated collapse."
It may be that due to an increased breakdown of the Hb protein, there is a release of heme that then contributes to the build-up of brain iron.
Marked alterations in systemic glutamate-glutamine metabolism characterize the catabolic state, in which there is an increased breakdown and decreased synthesis of skeletal muscle protein.
Such an imbalance in the relative activities of these enzymes would consequently favour an increased breakdown of the ECM.
The increased content of creatine in the muscle in colic horses may be due to an increased breakdown of CP [ 51].
This can be the consequence of either a reduced production by eNOS or, more frequently, of an increased breakdown by reactive oxygen species (ROS) (1, 2).
The mechanisms by which IGF‐1 deficiency impairs cerebromicrovascular endothelial function likely involve an increased breakdown of NO by elevated levels of ROS.
As Indonesia faces an increasing breakdown in law and order, and separatist movements persist in two major provinces, Aceh and Irian Jaya, the Pentagon is not alone in seeking ways to work with the Indonesian military.
"The Supreme Court's workload has increased disproportionately faster than the High Courts and lower courts, perhaps indicating an increasing breakdown within the judicial system of precedent-as-authority," according to the report, published by the Center for Policy Research, a think tank in New Delhi.
Cartilage degeneration is associated with an increasing loss of mechanical resistance which results an increasing breakdown of the chondral layers (grade 2 lesions).
Metabolic resistance results from the increased breakdown and excretion of insecticide molecules, a mechanism that has probably evolved from an ancestral ability to degrade dietary toxins23,26.
These data taken together indicate that each of the respective atrial natriuretic peptides inhibits the release, rather than breakdown, of each other, as increased breakdown would have resulted in their urinary concentrations being increased.
