| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| A-B | Apical-t-o-basolateral |
| B-A | Basolateral-to-apical |
| BA | Bioavailability |
| BCS | Biopharmaceutics Classification System |
| DMEM | Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium |
| DSMZ | Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen |
| EBSS | Earle’s Balanced Salt Solution |
| ECACC | European Collection of Authenticated Cell Cultures |
| EMA | European Medicines Agency |
| EMEM | Eagle’s minimum essential medium |
| fa | % fraction dose absorbed in humans [%] |
| FBS | Fetal bovine serum |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| HEPES | 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid |
| HP-IS | High-permeability internal standard |
| LP-IS | Low-permeability internal standard |
| MES | 2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid |
| MTT test | 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide test |
| NEAA | Non-essential amino acids |
| Papp | The apparent permeability coefficients [cm/s] |
| PBS | Phosphate Buffered Saline |
| TEER | Transepithelial electrical resistance |