| EVs | Extracellular vesicles |
| LM | Leptomeningeal metastasis |
| NTA | Nanoparticle tracking analysis |
| CSF | Cerebrospinal fluid |
| ddPCR | Droplet digital polymerase chain reaction |
| NSCLC | Non-small cell lung cancer |
| smRNA | Small non-coding RNA |
| qRT-PCR | Real time reverse transcription PCR |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| DAVID | Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| miRISC | miRNA-induced silencing complex |
| MDS | Multidimensional scaling |
| FC | Fold change |