| AUC | Area Under Curve |
| CE | Cardioembolic stroke |
| CT | Computer Tomography |
| DAS | Differentially Alternatively Spliced genes |
| DET | Differentially Expressed Transcripts |
| ELISA | Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay |
| EV | Extracellular Vesicle |
| FC | Fold Change |
| FDR | False Discovery Rate |
| IS | Ischemic Stroke |
| HS | Hemorrhagic Stroke |
| HTA | Human Transcriptome Array |
| LAC | Lacunar Stroke |
| lncRNA XIST | Long coding RNA (X-inactive specific transcript) |
| LV | Large Vessel occlusive stroke |
| MCEMP1 | Mast Cell-Expressed Membrane Protein-1 |
| NOS | Newcastle–Ottawa Scale |
| PFKFB3 | 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-biphosphatase |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| qPCR | Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| RNAseq | RNA Sequencing |
| SAH | Subarachnoid Hemorrhage |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SE | Standard Error |
| TCR | T-Cell Receptor |