| Adv DMEM | Advanced Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium |
| Adv DMEM/F12 | Advanced Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium/Nutrient F-12 Ham |
| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| CD44 | Cluster of differentiation 44 |
| DMEM | Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium |
| ECM | Extracellular matrix |
| FBS | Fetal bovine serum |
| HA | Hyaluronic acid |
| HAase | Hyaluronidase |
| HCl | Hydrochloric acid |
| HYAL1 | Hyaluronidase 1 |
| HYAL2 | Hyaluronidase 2 |
| MW | Molecular weight |
| PBS | Phosphate-Buffered Saline |
| PET | Translucent polyethene terephthalate |
| PVDF | Polyvinylidene fluoride |
| RIPA | Radioimmunoprecipitation assay |
| ROS | Radical oxygen species |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SDS-PAGE | Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate-PolyAcrylamide Gel Electrophoresis |
| TAE | Tris-acetate-EDTA |
| TEER | Transepithelial electrical resistance |
| TFP | Tremella fuciformis |
| TNFα | Tumour Necrosis Factor α |