"maintain the functions of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express the idea of not allowing something to become inoperable or fail. For example, "We need to maintain the functions of the heating system during the winter."
Robustness is the property to maintain the functions of intracellular biochemical regulatory networks despite these perturbations.
It is known that the combination of three-dimensional (3D) culture and co-culture, namely 3D co-culture, can maintain the functions of primary hepatocytes.
Increased activities of antioxidant enzyme, including OsPOX1, APXa, and related kinase OsTrx23 (Kim et al. [2011]; Sato et al. [2011]; Xie et al. [2012]) may serve to maintain the functions of many other genes during cold stress.
Even though anti-VEGF therapy may be an effective treatment for neovascular diseases of the eye, recent findings suggest that a low level of VEGF is normally present in the adult rodent retina, and is necessary to maintain the functions of retinal neurons and glia [41].
"I always maintain the function of the object.
"We made a decision very early on that whatever our opinion of each other — which I have to say is a good one — we were going to maintain the function of the family," Law said.
One way of preventing performances from degradation is to modify the control law in order to maintain the functioning of the process under acceptable operating conditions.
Consequently, we proposed that G-CSF in inflammatory colonic tissues might be able to recruit and maintain the function of bone-marrow derived MDSCs.
An effective method must reduce the microbial threat, maintain the function of the FFR, and present no residual chemical hazard.
Müller cells may utilize LRP5-mediated signaling pathway to regulate vascular development in deeper layers and to maintain the function of retinal interneurons.
Proper β-catenin expression is essential to maintain the function of the glomerular filtration barrier [ 9].
