| 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 |