| CVDs | Cardiovascular diseases |
| TNF-α | Tumor necrosis factor-α |
| TGF-β | Transforming growth factor-β |
| WAT | White adipose tissue |
| BAT | Brown adipose tissue |
| MLT | Melatonin |
| 18F-FDG | 18F- fluorodeoxyglucose |
| PET | Positron emission tomography |
| CT | Computed tomography |
| UCSF | University of California, San Francisco |
| IACUC | Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee |
| LARC | Laboratory Animal Research Center |
| AAALAC | Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care |
| ApoE-/- | Apolipoprotein-E knockout |
| OSEM | Ordered subset expectation maximization |
| VOIs | Volumes of interest |
| %ID/ml | %injected dose per ml of tissue |
| pCi/g | Picocurie per gram |
| CD68 | Cluster of Differentiation 68 |
| CD163 | Cluster of Differentiation 163 |
| ICAM-1 | Intracellular adhesion molecule-1 |
| VCAM-1 | Vascular cellular adhesion molecule-1 |
| DAPI | 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole |
| AU | Arbitrary units |
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