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. 2026 Sep 16;18(9):1170. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics18091170
ANOVA Analysis of variance
APC Article processing charge
ASM Antiseizure medication
BBB Blood–brain barrier
BCA Bicinchoninic acid
BDC Biodiagnostic Center
BDNF Brain-derived neurotrophic factor
BHT Butylated hydroxytoluene
CNS Central nervous system
CS Chitosan
DCF Dichlorofluorescein
DCFH-DA 2′,7′-Dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate
DCM Dichloromethane
DEVD-pNA Asp-Glu-Val-Asp-p-nitroanilide
DI Discrimination index
DLS Dynamic light scattering
DMSO Dimethyl sulfoxide
DL% Drug loading
DTT Dithiothreitol
EDTA Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
EE% Encapsulation efficiency
ELISA Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
EPM Elevated-plus maze
FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FTIR Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy
GABA Gamma-aminobutyric acid
GABAA Gamma-aminobutyric acid type A
GAPDH Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase
GFAP Glial fibrillary acidic protein
GSH Glutathione
HO-1 Heme oxygenase-1
IACUC Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
Iba1 Ionized calcium-binding adapter molecule 1
iNOS Inducible nitric oxide synthase
IL-1β Interleukin-1 beta
IL-6 Interleukin-6
KBr Potassium bromide
LC-MS/MS Liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry
LPS Lipopolysaccharide
MAPKs Mitogen-activated protein kinases
MDA Malondialdehyde
mTORC1 Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1
NF-κB Nuclear factor kappa B
nNOS Neuronal nitric oxide synthase
NO Nitric oxide
NOR Novel object recognition
NPs Nanoparticles
Nrf2 Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2
OFT Open-field test
PBS Phosphate-buffered saline
PDI Polydispersity index
PI3K/Akt Phosphoinositide 3-kinase/protein kinase B
PKA Protein kinase A
PLGA Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)
PTZ Pentylenetetrazol
PVA Polyvinyl alcohol
qRT-PCR Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction
RFU Relative fluorescence units
RIPA Radioimmunoprecipitation assay
ROS Reactive oxygen species
SD Standard deviation
SEM Scanning electron microscopy
SOD Superoxide dismutase
SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
TNF-α Tumor necrosis factor-alpha
UV–Vis Ultraviolet–visible
WST-1 Water-soluble tetrazolium salt-1
cDNA Complementary DNA
DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNase Deoxyribonuclease
RNA Ribonucleic acid
MW Molecular weight
MWCO Molecular weight cut-off
R2 Coefficient of determination
Ct Cycle threshold
OD Optical density
rpm Revolutions per minute
GenAI Generative artificial intelligence
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TNFR-1 Tumor necrosis factor receptor 1
RIPK1 Receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1
MLKL Mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein
PGAM5 Phosphoglycerate mutase family member 5
Drp-1 Dynamin-related protein 1
JAK2 Janus kinase 2
STAT3 Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3
ARE Antioxidant response element
Keap-1 Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1
Nox-2 NADPH oxidase 2
Na+/K+-ATPase Sodium–potassium adenosine triphosphatase