| PBC | Primary biliary cirrhosis |
| UDCA | Ursodeoxycholic acid |
| OCA | Obeticholic acid |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| DCs | Dendritic cells |
| NK | Natural killer |
| NKT | Natural killer T |
| AMA | Antimitochondrial antibodies |
| Ig | Immunoglobulin |
| IL-6 | Interleukin-6 |
| IL-10 | Interleukin-10 |
| IFN-γ | Interferon-γ |
| TNF-α | Tumor necrosis factor-α |
| ALP | Alkaline phosphatase |
| BAFF | B-cell -activating factor |
| BCR | B-cell receptor |
| ANA | Antinuclear antibody |
| MAIT | Mucosal-associated invariant T |
| TGF-β1 | Transforming growth factor-β1 |
| NF-κB | Nuclear factor-κB |
| RA | Rheumatoid arthritis |
| BECs | Biliary epithelial cells |
| PLGA | Poly lactic-co-glycolic acid |
| PMHCII | Peptide-major histocompatibility complex class II |
| TR1 | Regulatory type 1 |
| PDC-E2 | E2 subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex |
| AIH | Autoimmune hepatitis |
| CAR | Chimeric antigen receptor |
| AMPK | AMP-activated protein kinase |
| CTLA-4 | Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein-4 |
| Cyr61 | Cysteine-rich angiogenic inducer 61 |
| Pss | Primary Sjögren syndrome, HSCs, Hepatic stellate cells |
| MC | Mast cell |
| ICOS | Inducible co-stimulator |
| PD-1 | Programmed death-1 |
| BD | Bile duct |
| BAs | Bile acids |
| HiBEC | Human intrahepatic biliary epithelial cell |
| APCs | Antigen-presenting cells |
| MSCs | Mesenchymal stem cells |
| BM-MSC | Bone marrow-MSC |
| UC-MSCs | Umbilical cord–derived MSCs |
| 2OA-BSA | 2-Octynoic acid coupled to bovine serum albumin |
| 3D | 3-dimensional |
| CXCR3 | C-X-C motif chemokine receptor 3 |
| IP-10 | Inducible protein-10 |
| FKN | Fractalkine |
| GC | Germinal center |
| Sirt1 | Sirtuin-1 |
| NRs | Nuclear receptors |
| LT | Liver transplant |
| FXR | Farnesoid X receptor |
| PXR | Pregnane X receptor |
| PPARα | Peroxisome proliferator- activated receptor alpha |
| CAR | Constitutive androstane receptor |
| VDR | Vitamin D3 receptor;TGR5, Takeda G protein receptor 5 |
| S1PR2 | Sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 2 |
| TXR | Tropifexor |
| FMT | Fecal microbiota transplantation |
| CFTR | Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator |
| SR | Secretin receptor |
| AE2 | Anion exchanger protein 2 |
| NOX | Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase |
| LOXL2 | Lysyl oxidase-like protein 2 |
| NADPH | Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate. ncRNAs, Non-coding RNAs |
| miRNAs | Small non-coding RNAs |
| siRNA | Small interfering RNAs |
| scRNA-seq | Single-cell RNA sequencing |
| ST | Spatial transcriptomic |
| RIPK | Receptor interacting protein kinase |