| Acronym | Meaning |
| APOE | Apolipoprotein E |
| SSFLC | Surface-stabilized Ferroelec. Liq. Crystals |
| CLEIA | Chemiluminescent Enzyme Immunoassay |
| PARP | Poly ADP-ribose Polymerase |
| RAPD | Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA |
| AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
| DRS | Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy |
| CPHF | Coupled Perturbed Hartree-Fock |
| LNRS | Laser Nonresonant Shadowgraphy |
| CHFET | Complementary Heterojunction Field-effect Transistor |