| ADM | Acinar-to-ductal metaplasia | 
| ALDH1A1 | Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 family member A1 | 
| BRCA1 | Breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene 1, early onset | 
| CD24 | Cluster of differentiation 24, cell adhesion molecule | 
| CD29 | Integrin beta 1 (ITGB1) | 
| CD44 | Homing cell adhesion molecule, HCAM | 
| CD49f | Integrin alpha 6 (ITGA6) | 
| CD61 | Integrin beta 3 (ITGB3) | 
| CDH2 | Neural cadherin (N-cadherin) | 
| CK14 | Cytokeratin 14 (KRT14) | 
| CK18 | Cytokeratin 18 (KRT18) | 
| CK6 | Cytokeratin 6 (KRT6A) | 
| CK8 | Cytokeratin 8 (KRT8) | 
| CLBC | Claudin-low breast cancer | 
| Cre | Cre recombinase from the P1 bacteriophage | 
| CTNNB1 | Catenin beta 1, beta-catenin | 
| ECM | Extracellular matrix | 
| EF1 | Eef1a1 gene promoter | 
| EMT | Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition | 
| EpCAM | Epithelial cellular adhesion molecule, CD326 | 
| ER | Estrogen receptor | 
| FLP, FRT | Flp recombinase from yeast | 
| FRT | FLP recombination target site | 
| GFP | Green fluorescent protein | 
| H2B | Histone H2B | 
| HER2 | Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 | 
| KRAS | Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog | 
| LacZ | Lactose operon, beta-galactosidase | 
| LGR5 | Leucine-rich-repeat-containing G-protein-coupled receptor 5 | 
| loxP | Locus of crossing over, recognition site of Cre recombinase | 
| MMTV | Mouse mammary tumor virus | 
| NOTCH | Family of conserved receptors discovered in Drosophila melanogaster | 
| PIK3ca | Phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase catalytic subunit | 
| PI-MECs | Parity-induced mammary epithelial cells | 
| PR | Progesterone receptor | 
| PyMT | Polyoma virus middle T antigen | 
| Rosa26 | Ubiquitously active locus on chromosome 6 in mice | 
| SCA1 | Lymphocyte antigen 6 family member A (Ly6a) | 
| TAg | Simian virus 40 large T antigen | 
| TEB | Terminal end buds | 
| TetO | Tetracycline-controlled operator/promoter | 
| TNBC | Triple-negative breast cancer | 
| tTA | Tetracycline-controlled transactivator | 
| TP63 | Transformation-related protein 63, p63 | 
| VIM | Vimentin, type III intermediate filament protein | 
| WAP | Whey acidic protein, milk protein | 
| WNT | Wingless, integration site 1 (int1), signal transduction pathway |