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. 2025 Jul 17;26(14):6887. doi: 10.3390/ijms26146887
6MWT 6-Minute Walk Test
AAV Adeno-associated virus
ACTB Actin beta
AD Alzheimer’s disease
ADM Abductor digiti minimi
Aldh4a1 Aldehyde dehydrogenase 4 family, member A1
ADMA Asymmetric dimethylarginine
ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
ALSFRS-R Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Functional Rating Scale—Revised
APP Amyloid precursor protein
ASC-EVs Exosomes derived from adipose-derived stem cells
ASOs Antisense oligonucleotides
Amyloid-β
BACE1 β-site APP cleaving enzyme-1
BBB Blood–brain barrier
Bcl2 B-cell lymphoma 2
BI Barthe index
BMI Body mass index
Bmp4 Barthel Index
CCL5 C-C motif chemokine ligand 5
CCR Creatinine-to-cystatin C ratio
ceRNA Competing endogenous RNA
CHD4 Chromodomain helicase DNA binding protein 4
CHI3L1 Chitinase-3-like protein 1
CHIT1 Chitotriosidase 1
Chl1 Cell adhesion molecule L1-like protein
CHOP INTEND Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Infant test of Neuromuscular Disorders
CK Creatine kinase
CMAP Compound muscle action potential
CNS Central nervous system
Cplx2 Complexin 2
Crn Creatinine
CSF Cerebrospinal fluid
DYNC1H1 Dynein cytoplasmic 1 heavy chain 1
EI Muscle echogenicity
EIM Electrical impedance myography
ELISA Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
EMG Electromyographic
Gata6 GATA binding protein 6
GDF15 Growth differentiation factor 15
GFAP Glial fibrillary acidic protein
GSEA Gene set enrichment analysis
HDL High-density lipoprotein
HFMSE Hammersmith functional motor scale–expanded
HINE-2 Section 2 of the Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination
HNRNPA1 Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1
HSPA7 Heat shock protein family A member 7
IBA1 Ionized calcium binding adaptor molecule 1
IL Interleukin
IL-1ra Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist
INF-γ Interferon-γ
ISL1 ISL LIM homeobox 1
JUND JunD Proto-Oncogene
LDA Linear discriminant analysis
Lif Leukemia inhibitory factor
MCP-1 Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1
MFM Motor Function Measurement
MIP-1β Macrophage inflammatory protein-1β
miRNAs MicroRNAs
MMA/SDMA Monomethylarginine/symmetric dimethylarginine
MOST Multispectral optoacoustic tomography
MT Muscle thickness
MUNE Motor unit number estimation
MUNIX Motor unit number index
myomiRs Muscle-specific miRNAs
NCOR2 Nuclear receptor corepressor 2
NCX2 Sodium-calcium exchanger 2
NfH Neurofilament heavy chain
NfL Neurofilament light chain
NfM Neurofilament medium chain
NFs Neurofilaments
NF-κB Nuclear factor kappa B
NPV Negative predictive value
Pak4 P21-activated kinase 4
PCR Polymerase chain reaction.
PLS3 Plastin 3
PME Progressive myoclonic epilepsy
pNfH Phosphorylated neurofilament heavy chain
PRMT Protein arginine methyltransferase
Ptgs2 Prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2
QAlb Albumin quotient
RHOA Ras homolog family member A
ROCK1 Rho-associated coiled-coil containing protein kinase 1
RULM Revised upperlimb module
S100B S100 calcium-binding protein B
sAPP Soluble amyloid precursor protein
SD Standard deviation
SIMOA Sensitive single-molecule array
SLC23A2 Solute carrier family 23 member 2
SMA Spinal muscular atrophy
SMA-PME SMA with progressive myoclonic epilepsy
SMN Survival motor neuron
snRNP Small nuclear ribonucleoprotein
Syt Synaptotagmin
SOX2 SRY-box transcription factor 2
TBXT T-box transcription factor T
TNF-α Tumor necrosis factor-alpha
TRADD TNF Receptor-Associated Death Domain
WGCNA Weighted correlation network analysis