| Aβ | amyloid beta protein |
| AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
| 5xFAD | five times familial Alzheimer’s disease |
| TPVA | trans 2-phenyl vinyl-boronic acid |
| TBSA | trans-beta-styryl-boronic acid |
| GFAP | glial fibrillary acidic protein |
| Iba-1 | ionized calcium-binding adapter molecule 1 |
| MWM | Morris water maze |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| PDE4 | phosphodiesterase enzyme 4 |
| MMP+ | 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium |
| HFIP | 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoroisopropanol |
| MEM | Minimum essential medium |
| FBS | fetal bovine serum |
| TBS | Tris-buffer saline |
| TBS-T | Tris-buffer saline-Tween-20 |
| HRP | horseradish-peroxidase |
| MTT | 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide |
| SEM | standard error of mean |
| IACUC | Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee |
| WT | wild-type |
| OFT | open field test |
| NOR | novel object recognition |
| FO | familiar object |
| TN | time of the novel object |
| TF | time of the familiar object |
| DI | discrimination index |
| MWM | Morris water maze |
| DPX | distyrene plasticizer xylene |
| IHC | immunoreactivity |
| NGS | normal goat serum |
| DAPI | 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole |
| IR | immunoreactivity |
| ANOVA | analysis of variance |
| HSD | honestly significant difference |
| µM | micromolar |
| µg | microgram |
| CV | cresyl violet |
| TNF-α | tumor necrosis factor-α |
| GSK-3β | glycogen synthase kinase-3β |
| PBS | phosphate buffer saline |
| NGM | nematode growth medium |
| MIDA | methyliminodiacetic acid |