| AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
| ALS | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
| BDNF | Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor |
| CNS | Central Nervous System |
| CPM | Count Per Million |
| CSF | Cerebral Spinal Fluid |
| DAM | Disease Associated Microglia |
| EAAT1 | Excitatory Amino Acid Transporter 1 |
| ELISA | Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay |
| FACS | Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting |
| FC | Fold Change |
| GABA | Gamma-AminoButyric Acid |
| GLAST | Glutamate Aspartate Transporter 1 |
| NEUN | Neuronal Nuclei |
| NPC | Niemann-Pick disease, type C |
| PBS | Phosphate Buffer Solution |
| PCA | Principle Component Analysis |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| scRNAseq | Single Cell Ribonucleic Acid Sequencing |
| SRA | Sequence Read Archive |
| TNF | Tumor Necrosis Factor |
| t-SNE | t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding |
| UMI | Unique Molecular Identifier |