2-DG	2-deoxy-D-glucose
αMG	α-methyl-D-glucopyranoside
ABC	ATP-Binding Cassette
AD	Alzheimer’s disease
AGEs	Advanced glycation end-products
ATP	Adenosine Triphosphate
BBB	Brain–blood barrier
CA1	Hippocampal Pyramidal Cells
CDG-IIf	Congenital disorder of N-linked glycosylation IIf
CP	Choroid Plexus
CWI	Cell Wall Invertase
cDNADHA	Complementary Deoxyribonucleic AcidDehydroascorbic acid
E.c.MalK	Maltose transporter from E. coli
ECF	Eenergy-coupling factor transporters
EGFR	Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor
ER	Endoplasmic Reticulum
FfZ	Fungal Sugar Facilitators
FDG	Fluorodeoxyglucose
GLUT	Glucose Transporters
GLUT1DS	GLUT1 Deficiency Syndrome
HEX	Hexosaminidase
HG	Hyperglycemia
HIF-1	Hypoxia Inducible factor 1
HMIT	H-Mio-Inositol Transporter
IL-1β	Interleukin 1β
MFS	Major Facilitator Superfamily
MRCA	Most Recent Common Ancestor
MST	Monosaccharide Transporter
MtN3	Bidirectional Sugar Transporter N3
mTOR	Mammalian Target of Rapamycin
mRNA	Messenger Ribonucleic Acid
miRNA	Micro ribonucleic acid
MTP	Monosaccharide Transporter
MYC	Transcription factors c-Myc or MYC oncogene
NaGLT	Novel sodium-dependent sugar transporter
NBD	Nucleotide Binding Domains
ND	Not described
NST	Nucleotide sugar transporter
PET	Positron emission tomography
PglK	oligosaccharide ABC transporter
RAG1AP1	Recombination Activating Gene 1 Activating Protein 1
rCGU	regional cerebral glucose utilization
RiMST	Rhizophagus irregularis monosaccharide transporters
ROS	Reactive Oxygen Species
RUNX2	Runt-related Osteoblast Transcription Factor
SGLT	Sodium-Dependent Glucose Transporters
shRNA	Short hairpin ribonucleic acid
siRNA	Silencing ribonucleic acid
SIRT	Sirtuins
SIX1	Sine Oculis Homeobox 1
SLC	Solute Carriers
SMIT	Osmolyte Transporters
SNAP	Synaptophysin
ST	Sugar Transporters
STF-3	Specific transcription factor 3
STP	Sugar Transporter Protein
SUT or /SUC	Sucrose Transporter or sucrose carrier
SWEET	Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporter
Swt-1	Sugar Transporter SWEET1
T2DM	Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
TGF-β1	Transforming growth factor β1
TM	Transmembrane regions
TMD	Trans Membrane Domain
TMT	Tonoplast Monosaccharide Transporter
TNF-α	Tumor necrosis factor α
TRPV	Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid
URAT	Ureate Transporter
VGT	Vacuolar Glucose Transporter
VLPO	Ventrolateral Preoptic Nucleus
WZB	Small molecule GLUT1 inhibitor