| Aβ | amyloid beta |
| AD | Alzheimer´s disease |
| APP | transgenic mice containing the human mutated APPswe |
| APP/D | APP mice with diffuse Aβ deposits and ≤10 Aβ plaques/mm2 |
| APP/P | APP mice with ≥ 10 Aβ plaques/mm2 |
| ASC | apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a caspase recruitment domain |
| CARD | caspase recruitment domain |
| DG | dentate gyrus |
| GFAP | glial fibrillary acidic protein |
| HP | hippocampus |
| Iba1 | ionized calcium-binding adapter protein 1 |
| IF | inflammasome |
| IL | interleukin |
| LM | stratum lacunosum-molecularis of hippocampus |
| NeuN | neuronal nuclei |
| NLR | NOD-like receptors |
| NLRP1 | NLR family PYD-containing 1 |
| NLRP3 | NLR family PYD-containing 3 |
| NLRC4 | NLR family CARD-containing 4 |
| NOD | nucleotide binding and oligomerization domain |
| PRR | pattern recognition receptors |
| PYD | pyrin domain |
| RLM | strata radiatum, lacunosum-molecularis of hippocampus and stratum molecularis of dentate gyrus |
| ROS | radical oxygen species |
| TGF-β | transforming growth factor-β |
| TNF-α | tumor necrosis factor-α |
| WT | wild type |