| DNA | Desoxyribonucleic acid |
| TOR | Target of Rapamycin |
| RNA | Ribonucleic acid |
| ROS | Reactive Oxygen Species |
| UV | Ultraviolet |
| 8-OHdG | 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine |
| rDNA | Ribosomal DNA |
| ERC | Extrachromosomal Ribosomal DNA Circles |
| mtDNA | Mitochondrial DNA |
| DDR | DNA Damage Repair |
| MMR | Mismatch Repair |
| BER | Base Excision Repair |
| NER | Nucleotide Excision Repair |
| DSB | Double Strand Break |
| NHEJ | Non-Homologous End Joining |
| ADP | Adenosine Diphosphate |
| HMT | Histone Methyltransferase |
| UPRmt | Mitochondrial Unfolded Protein Response |
| HAT | Histone Acetyltransferase |
| HDAC | Histone Deacetylase |
| DNMT | DNA Methyltransferase |
| 5-mC | 5-methylcytosine |
| CpG | Cytosine-phospho-guanine |
| DNAm | DNA Methylation |
| rRNA | Ribosomal RNA |
| CR | Caloric Restriction |
| ncRNA | Non-coding RNA |
| miRNA | microRNA |
| lncRNA | Long non-coding RNA |
| IGF | Insulin-like Growth Factor |
| rRNA | Ribosomal RNA |
| RNAi | RNA interference |
| tRNA | Transfer RNA |
| mRNA | Messenger RNA |
| SAHF | Senescence-associated Heterochromatin Foci |
| ChIP | Chromatin Immunoprecipitation |
| HSC | Hematopoietic Stem Cell |
| MSC | Mesenchymal Stem Cell |
| NuRD | Nucleosome Remodeling and histone Deacetylase |