| Aβ | Amyloid-β |
| AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
| ALS | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
| APP | Amyloid precursor protein |
| ARE | Antioxidant response element |
| ATP | Adenosine triphosphate |
| BACE1 | Beta-secretase 1 |
| CRISPR | Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| DAT | Dopamine transporter |
| GSH | Glutathione |
| HD | Huntington’s disease |
| mHTT | mutant Huntingtin |
| PD | Parkinson’s disease |
| PSEN | Presenilin |
| RAN | Repeat associated non-ATG |
| REST | Repressor Element 1 Silencing Transcription Factor |
| RISC | RNA-induced silencing complex |
| ROS | Reactive oxygen species |
| sAβ | soluble amyloid-β |
| SNpc | Substantia nigra pars compacta |
| SOD | Superoxide dismutase |
| VMAT2 | Vesicular monoamine transporter 2 |
| UTR | Untranslated region |