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. 2025 Oct 13;14(10):1403. doi: 10.3390/biology14101403
2D Two-dimensional
3D Three-dimensional
ACM Activated conditioned medium
BEAM Branch Expression Analysis Modeling
CAF Cancer-associated fibroblast
CAFEndMT EndMT-like cancer-associated fibroblast subtype
CAFmyo Cancer-associated myofibroblast subtype
CGGA Chinese Glioma Genome Atlas
CM Conditioned medium
CRC Colorectal cancer
CSCC Cervical squamous cell carcinoma
DEG Differentially expressed gene
DMVEC Dermal microvascular endothelial cell
DSP Differentially secreted protein
EAC Esophageal adenocarcinoma
EGA European Genome-phenome Archive
EC Endothelial cell
ECM Extracellular matrix
EdMTS EndMT signature (score)
EMT Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition
EndMT Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition
GBC Gallbladder cancer
GBM Glioblastoma
GC Gastric cancer
GO Gene Ontology
GSEA Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
HCC Hepatocellular carcinoma
HCMEC Human cerebral microvascular endothelial cell
HDLEC Human dermal lymphatic endothelial cell
HEMEC Human esophageal microvascular endothelial cell
HMEC-1 Human microvascular endothelial cell line
HMVEC Human microvascular endothelial cell
HPAEC Human pulmonary arterial endothelial cell
HPMEC Human pulmonary microvascular endothelial cell
HUVEC Human umbilical vein endothelial cell
IBD Inflammatory bowel disease
IFF Interstitial fluid flow
IF Immunofluorescence
KD Knockdown
KO Knockout
KP KrasG12D;Trp53flox/flox (lung adenocarcinoma mouse model)
KS Kaposi’s sarcoma
KSHV Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
LFQ Label-free quantitation
lncRNA Long non-coding RNA
LSL LoxP-STOP-LoxP
MLEC Mouse lung endothelial cell
MSC Mesenchymal stem cell
mRNA Messenger RNA
NSCLC Non-small-cell lung cancer
PCA Principal component analysis
PDAC Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
R26R-LacZ Rosa26 reporter–LacZ
RBEC Rat brain endothelial cell
rGBM Recurrent glioblastoma
RIP1-Tag2 RIP1-Tag2 pancreatic islet tumor mouse model
RNA-seq RNA sequencing
ROS Reactive oxygen species
SAEndo2 Scar-associated endothelial subset
scRNA-seq Single-cell RNA sequencing
shRNA Short hairpin RNA
siRNA Small interfering RNA
STAD Stomach adenocarcinoma (TCGA cohort)
ST-seq Spatial transcriptomics sequencing
TAM Tumor-associated macrophage
TCGA The Cancer Genome Atlas
tdTomato Tandem dimer Tomato
TEER Transendothelial electrical resistance
TEC Tumor endothelial cell
TME Tumor microenvironment
TMZ Temozolomide
TMZ-R Temozolomide-resistant
TMZ-S Temozolomide-sensitive