| IS | Immune System |
| IR | Immune Response |
| PAMPs | Pathogen-associated Molecular Patterns |
| DAMPs | Damage-associated Molecular Patterns |
| TLR | Toll-like Receptors |
| FBR | Foreign Body Response |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry |
| DDA | Data-dependent Acquisition |
| DIA | Data-independent Acquisition |
| PRM | Parallel Reaction Monitoring |
| SRM | Selected Reaction Monitoring |
| LC | Liquid Chromatography |
| MALDI | Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization |
| ESI | Electrospray Ionization |
| TOF | Time Of Flight |
| Q | Quadrupole |
| ICR | Ion Cyclotron Resonance |
| MSI | Mass Spectrometry Imaging |
| IM-MS | Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry |
| TMT | Tandem Mass Tag |
| NAPPA | Nucleic Acid Programmable Protein Array |
| PEG | Polyethylene glycol |
| RGD | Arginine-glycine-aspartic acid |
| ECM | Extracellular matrix |
| MSC | Mesenchymal Stem Cells |
| HPLC | High-performance liquid chromatography |
| ABPP | Activity-based Protein Profiling |
| PTM | Post-translational Modifications |
| PISA | Proteome Integral Solubility Alteration |
| FDR | False Discovery Rate |