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. 2025 Jun 26;26(13):6174. doi: 10.3390/ijms26136174
AMD Aged-related Macular Degeneration
VEGF Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
CNV Choroidal Neovascularization
RPE Retinal Pigment Epithelium
ROS Reactive Oxygen Species
HO-1 Heme Oxygenase-1
SOD2 Superoxide Dismutase 2
Drp1 Dynamin-1-like protein
mtDNA Mitochondrial DNA
GA Geographic Atrophy
A2E Bisretinoid N-retinyl-N-retinylidene ethanolamine
atRAL All-trans retinal
4-HNE 4-hydroxynonenal
MDA Malondialdehyde
CFH Complement Factor H
BrM Bruch’s Membrane
G-CSF/GM-CSF Granulocyte/Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor
DAF Decay-Accelerating Factor
MCP Membrane Cofactor Protein
MAC Membrane Attack Complex
CC Choriocapillaris
CRP C-Reactive Protein
CCL2 Chemokine Ligand 2
BLinD Basal Linear Deposits
BLamD Basal Laminar Deposits
ApoB Apolipoproteins B
ApoE Apolipoproteins E
HDL High-Density Lipoprotein
ALE Advanced Lipid Peroxidation End product
DHA Docosahexaenoic Acid
NF-κB Nuclear Factor Kappa-Light-Chain-Enhancer of Activated B Cells
PDGF Platelet-Derived Growth Factor
Ang-2 Angiopoietin-2
FAO Fatty Acid Oxidation
oBRB Outer Blood–Retina Barrier
TJ Tight Junction
ZO-1 Zona Occludens-1
TXNIP Thioredoxin-Interacting Protein
EMT Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition
TGF-β Transforming Growth Factor β
MCP-1 Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1
cGAS-STING Cyclic GMP-AMP Synthase–Stimulator of Interferon Genes
PUFA Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid
DNMT DNA Methyltransferase
AZA 5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine
HDAC Histone Deacetylase
MCFA Medium-Chain Fatty Acid
CNN Convolutional Neural Network
PIGF Placental Growth Factor
FDA US Food and Drug Administration
ASRS American Society of Retina Specialists
EZ Ellipsoid Zone
meQTLs Metabolite Quantitative Trait Loci
iPSCs Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
SCFAs Short-Chain Fatty Acids
MAPK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase
UDCA Ursodeoxycholic Acid
ESCs Embryonic-Derived Cells
EVs Extracellular Vesicles
hUC Human Umbilical Cord
RoC Retina-on-a-Chip
AI Artificial Intelligence
OCT Optical Coherence Tomography
DS-NMF Deep Subspace Nonnegative Matrix Factorization