| ATCC | American type culture collection |
| DEX | Dexamethasone |
| DMEM | Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium |
| DMSO | Dimethyl Sulfoxide |
| E2 | Estradiol |
| EOs | Essential Oils |
| ER | Estrogen receptor |
| ERE | Estrogen Response Elements |
| ERα | Estrogen receptor alpha |
| ERβ | Estrogen receptor beta |
| FBS | Fetal Bovine Serum |
| G6Pase | Glucose 6-phosphatase |
| GR | Glucocorticoids Receptor |
| GREs -Luc | Glucocorticoid Response Elements-luciferase |
| HEK-293 | Human Embryonic Kidney-293 |
| HIF-1α | Hypoxia inducible factor 1 alpha |
| HPA | Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal |
| IL-6 | Interleukin-6 |
| NF-κB | Nuclear Factor Kappa B |
| NF-κB-REs-Luc | NF-κB Response Elements-luciferase |
| OD | Optical Density |
| PEPCK | Phoshoenolpyruvate carboxykinase |
| ROS | Reactive Oxygen Species |
| TNF-α | Tumor Necrosis factor alpha |