The phrase "attenuate the initial" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe the action of reducing the intensity or severity of something that is initial or preliminary.
Example: "To improve the overall performance, we need to attenuate the initial impact of the changes we are implementing."
Alternatives: "reduce the initial" or "diminish the initial".
We have previously reported that cimetidine, a reference H2 receptor antagonist, attenuates the initial osteoclastic burst and subsequent trabecular bone loss induced by ovariectomy (ovx) in rats.
Pilot short-term animal studies showed that Dex released from porous coatings implanted in rat subcutis attenuated the initial inflammatory response to sensor implantation.
Each of these three factors partially attenuated the initial association (Table S10).
Although somewhat attenuated, the initial viral isolate had retained enough virulence to kill rabbits.
However, autoantibodies that significantly slowed receptor internalization also attenuated the initial cAMP response to isoproterenol, which seems more consistent with retardation of receptor regeneration following desensitization (which requires internalization) than with the inhibition of desensitization itself.
Together, these findings indicate that the conversion of GM3 to LacCer in SMF-treated cells inhibits Ca2+-dependent signaling pathways in a manner that attenuates the initial multi-pronged up-regulation of IL-6.
This might indicate that the general mechanism of the compensations is to attenuate the effect of initial modifications, i.e. to reduce the change in myocyte function.
One potential cause for this could be the dependence of mRNA read-out method (qRT-PCR) on several rounds of amplification, which may attenuate the differences if the initial number of mRNAs is different but high in two samples.
Because the sub-optimal regulation design cannot efficiently attenuate the effect of uncertain initial conditions and disturbances on the regulation, it is not suitable for robust synthetic gene networks with uncertain initial conditions and disturbances on the host cell.
It is worth noticing that the synaptic weights are not attenuated to the initial state but remain in the intermediate state, which means that the memory consists of two parts: transient plasticity and permanent plasticity, i.e., STP and LTP.
