| Alzheimer’s disease | AD |
| familial Alzheimer’s disease | FAD |
| sporadic Alzheimer’s disease | SAD |
| neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation | NBIA |
| Parkinson’s disease | PD |
| Huntington’s disease | HD |
| amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | ALS |
| multiple sclerosis | MS |
| amyloid beta | Aβ |
| transferrin | Tf |
| Tf-bound iron | TBI |
| transferrin receptor | TfR |
| non-transferrin-bound iron | NTBI |
| divalent metal transporter-1 | DMT1 |
| labile iron pool | LIP |
| central nervous system | CNS |
| Blood–brain barrier | BBB |
| brain microvascular endothelial cell | BMVEC |
| transient receptor potential mucolipin-1 | TRPML1 |
| ferritin | Ftn |
| reactive oxygen species | ROS |
| gamma-aminobutyric acid | GABA |
| inducible nitric oxidase | iNOS |
| N-methyl-D-aspartate | NMDA |
| adenosine triphosphate | ATP |
| 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme A | HMG-CoA |
| tricarboxylic acid | TCA |
| interferon gamma | IFN-γ |
| toll-like receptor | TLR |
| tumor necrosis factor-alpha | TNF-α |
| interleukin-6 | IL-6 |
| interleukin 1-beta | IL-1β |
| interleukin-12 | IL-12 |
| interleukin-10 | IL-10 |
| C-C motif chemokine ligand-2 | CCL2 |
| transforming growth factor-beta | TGF-β |
| insulin-like growth factor-1 | IGF-1 |
| fibroblast growth factor | FGF |
| nerve growth factor | NGF |
| brain-derived growth factor | BDNF |
| toll-like receptor 2 | TLR2 |
| toll-like receptor 4 | TLR4 |
| toll-like receptor 6 | TLR6 |
| cluster of differentiation 33 | CD33 |
| cluster of differentiation 36 | CD36 |
| triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 | TREM2 |
| apolipoprotein E | apoE |
| apolipoprotein E4 | apoE4 |
| apolipoprotein E2 | apoE2 |