| ACM | astrocyte conditioned medium |
| AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
| AGD | argyrophilic grain disease |
| ARTAG | aging related Tau astrogliopathy |
| CBD | corticobasal degeneration |
| FTDP17 | frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 |
| GAD | glutamate decarboxylase |
| GABA | γ-aminobutyric acid |
| GGC | glutamine-glutamate cycle |
| GGT | globular glial tauopathy |
| GLAST | glial high-affinity glutamate aspartate transporter |
| GLT1 | glial glutamate transporter |
| GS | glutamine synthetase |
| NFTs | neurofibrillary tangles |
| iPSCs | induced pluripotent stem cells |
| PSP | progressive supranuclear palsy |
| rtau | recombinant mutant tau |
| TSP1 | thrombospondin 1 |