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. 2023 May 30;14:1184252. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1184252
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