The phrase "attenuated in order" is not correct and may be confusing in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing the reduction or weakening of something for a specific purpose, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The signal was attenuated in order to prevent distortion during transmission."
Alternatives: "reduced for the purpose" or "weakened to achieve".
Setting: Strains of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex are being rationally attenuated in order to develop better tuberculosis vaccines than BCG, and it would be helpful if new vaccines lacked an immunogenic protein which could be used as a skin test reagent for determining infection status.
One data stream was used as reference, whereas the other was progressively attenuated in order to simulate weak signal conditions.
The signal parameters for the data collection are provided in Table 4. Data were progressively attenuated in order to simulate weak signal conditions.
This leads to the interesting (and intuitive) notion that the sensory consequences of acting have to be attenuated in order to act.
We show that as CTH increases, normal vasodilator responses must be attenuated in order to reduce the degree of functional shunting and improve blood-tissue oxygen concentration gradients to allow sufficient myocardial oxygenation.
(e) Modulation of SS, is attenuated in GC-ΔCACNA1A mice.
Pulmonary fibrosis was attenuated in BLM-treated Ninj1 KO mice.
These effects were attenuated in CHF [27].
As a result, bacteria have to attenuate their virulence in order to be resistant to the phage lysis [ 26].
We hypothesize that the cell attenuates cobalamin biosynthesis in order to divert intermediates for the biosynthesis of PPIX and bacteriochlorophyll (unpublished observation).
It has been proposed that the upregulation of miR-214 expression, in response to ischemic injury, protects myocytes from damage by attenuating Ncx1 levels in order to prevent excessive Ca2+ influx into the cytoplasm [ 81].
