The phrase "decreased the ability" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a reduction in someone's or something's capacity to perform a task or function.
Example: "The new policy has significantly decreased the ability of employees to work remotely."
Alternatives: "reduced the capacity" or "diminished the capability."
Se also decreased the ability for insulin to stimulate Akt phosphorylation at Thr308.
Icatibant decreased the ability of this combination to lower arterial pressure.
This might explain the result that Y217F decreased the ability of EB1 to interact with MCAK and APC.
In previous studies, treatment with titanium dioxide NP (TiO2) also decreased the ability of human fibroblasts to cause collagen contraction [30] and to induce procollagen-1 repression [31].
Weakening the inhibition of either Bax or ceramide channels decreased the ability of Bcl-xL to protect cells from apoptosis in a stimulus-dependent manner.
Interestingly, expression of either ΔPD or Ey-PB significantly decreased the ability of WT Ey to activate Ato 3′ enhancer expression and to induce ectopic eye formation (Fig. 3C, 3D, 3E, 3J, 3L and 3M, P < 0.0001).
Economic and social change, particularly the better communications brought by the railways, decreased the ability of Edinburgh to function as an alternative cultural capital to London, with its publishing industry moving to London.
Of these inhibitors, only the Mek1 inhibitor U0126 decreased the ability of IL-3 to stabilize transcripts.
In primigravid women, concurrent malaria infection was associated with significantly increased antibodies, whereas HIV decreased the ability to acquire opsonising antibodies (Mann-Whitney ranksum: p = 0.013).
The bi-modality treatment decreased the ability of endothelial cells to form capillary tubule-like structures compared with M867 or radiation alone.
LPS treatment decreased the ability of insulin to stimulate PI 3-kinase activity while iNOS inhibition with aminoguanidine fully restored insulin's action on PI 3-kinase (Figure 1D).
