| ASD | Autism spectrum diseases |
| Bbb | Blood–brain barrier |
| Cbl | Scaffold protein, E3 ubiquitin ligase |
| CRISPR | Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| CX3CR1 | Chemokine receptor CX3C; fractalkine receptor |
| DAP12 | DNAX activating protein of 12 kDa |
| EAE | Experimental autoimmune encephalitis |
| eNOS | Endothelial NO synthase |
| FDG | Fluorodeoxyglucose |
| GIRK | G-protein coupled inwardly rectifying potassium channel |
| GPCR | G-protein-coupled receptor |
| HDAC | Histone deacetylase |
| htert Human | telomerase reverse transcriptase |
| LRR | Leucine-rich repeat domain |
| MerTK | Myeloid-epithelial reproductive tyrosine kinase |
| NLRP3 | NOD-, LRR- and pyrin domain-containing protein 3 |
| NOD | Nucleotide binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 2 |
| PET | Positron emission tomography |
| RAGE | Receptor for advanced glycation end products |
| S1P | Sphingosine 1phosphate |
| sTREM2 | Soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 |
| SUV | Standard uptake value |
| TREM2 | Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 |
| TRM | Tissue resident memory cells |
| TSPO | 18 kDa-translocator protein |