| AUC | area under the curve |
| CMap | Connectivity Map |
| DMEM | Dulbecco’s modified Eagles medium |
| DMSO | dimethyl sulfoxide |
| ELISA | enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay |
| FBS | foetal bovine serum |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| FPI | fluid-percussion injury |
| GM-CSF | granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor |
| IFNy | interferon gamma |
| IL | interleukin |
| LINCS | Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures |
| LPS | lipopolysaccharide |
| MAP2 | microtubule-associated protein 2 |
| ML | machine learning |
| NO | nitric oxide |
| NO2- | nitrite |
| PBS | phosphate-buffered saline |
| STAR | Spliced Transcripts Alignment to Reference |
| TBI | traumatic brain injury |
| TNFα | tumour necrosis factor alpha |
| 1400W | N-(3-(aminomethyl)benzyl)acetamidine |