| AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
| ADAM | A disintegrin and metalloprotease |
| AICD | APP intracellular domain |
| APP | β-amyloid precursor protein |
| Aph-1 | Anterior pharynx-defective 1 |
| Asn | Asparagine |
| Aβ | β-amyloid |
| BACE1 | β-site APP cleaving enzyme-1 |
| FDG | Fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose |
| GalNAc | N-acetylgalactosamine |
| GFAT | Glutamine-fructose-6-phosphate amidotransferase |
| GlcNAc | N-acetylglucosamine |
| GLUT | Glucose transporter |
| GnT-III | β1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase III |
| HBP | Hexosamine biosynthetic pathway |
| hAPP | human APP |
| LLO | Lipid-linked oligosaccharide |
| MAP | Microtubule-associated protein |
| Mgat3−/− | GnT-III-deficient |
| mOGT | Mitochondrial OGT |
| ncOGT | Nucleocytoplasmic OGT |
| NFTs | Neurofibrillary tangles |
| NICD | Notch intracellular domain |
| OGA | O-GlcNAcase |
| OGA-L | OGA Large |
| OGA-S | OGA short |
| O-GlcNAcylation | O-linked β-N-acetylglucosaminylation |
| OGT | O-GlcNAc transferase |
| OST | Oligosaccharyltransferase |
| Pen-2 | Presenilin enhancer 2 |
| PET | Positron emission tomography |
| PSEN | Presenilin |
| PTMs | Post-translational modifications |
| ROS | Reactive oxygen species |
| Ser | Serine |
| sOGT | short OGT |
| TCA | Tricarboxylic acid |
| Thr | Threonine |
| T2DM | Type II diabetes mellitus |
| UDP-GlcNAc | Uridine 5′-diphospho-N-acetylglucosamine |
| 3 × Tg-AD | Triple transgenic murine model of AD |