| ANOVA | Analysis of variance |
| APLAC | Administrative Panel on Laboratory Animal Care |
| ARRIVE | Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments |
| ART | Adhesive removal test |
| A/P | Anterior/Posterior |
| BBB | Blood-brain barrier |
| BDNF | Brain-derived neurotrophic factor |
| CCA | Common carotid artery |
| CD68 | Cluster of differentiation 68 |
| CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
| DAPI | 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole dihydrochloride |
| DABCO | 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane |
| dMCAo | Distal middle cerebral artery occlusion |
| DPX | Distyrene plasticizer xylene |
| D/V | Dorsal/Ventral |
| ELISA | Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay |
| GFAP | Glial fibrillary acidic protein |
| HA | Hyaluronan |
| IACUC | Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee |
| Iba1 | Ionized calcium-binding adapter molecule 1 |
| IHC | Immunohistochemistry |
| IR | Immunoreactivity |
| MCA | Middle cerebral artery |
| MCT | Multiple comparisons test |
| NIH | National Institute of Health |
| ROI | Region of interest |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SEM | Standard error of mean |
| TrkB | Tyrosine kinase B |
| PFA | Paraformaldehyde |
| 28-PN | 28-point neuroscore |