The phrase "activate and maintain" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in contexts where you are discussing the initiation and ongoing support or operation of a system, process, or function.
Example: "To ensure optimal performance, it is essential to activate and maintain the software regularly."
Alternatives: "initiate and sustain" or "start and uphold".
This form of exercise can activate and maintain the sensorimotor network.
Miritello et al. [34] study how individuals adopt different tie formation strategies to activate and maintain ties.
These results highlight ecosystem engineers as ecological linchpins that can activate and maintain key mutualisms between species.
Regular motor coordination exercise can also generate positive adaptations of cognitive function, and this form of exercise is likely to activate and maintain the visual-spatial network.
Taken together, our results indicate that IP3R1 and IP3R2, at least in part, redundantly activate and maintain calcineurin/NFATc signaling.
MyoD, Myf5 and Mrf4 have overlapping but developmentally distinct functions in the specification and differentiation of myoblasts, whereas Myog and Mrf4 activate and maintain the terminal differentiation of muscle [1], [3].
Thus, a small molecule that can activate SERCA and maintain high ER calcium levels under pathological conditions could prevent death of neurons and β cells in Wolfram syndrome.
In embryonic stem cells, telomerase is activated and maintains telomere length and cellular immortality; however, the level of telomerase activity is low or absent in the majority of stem cells regardless of their proliferative capacity.
Aerobic exercise activates and maintains the sensorimotor network while coordination exercise activates and maintains the visual-spatial network.
This indicates that the same key pathways are important for activating and maintaining the hibernation phenotype.
In CORA however, cooperative coverage scheduling and rate assignment activates and maintains correlation information only for those critical nodes that would maximize the energy saving of distributed source coding.
