| ACS | Acute Coronary Syndrome |
| ECM | Extracellular Matrix |
| FDR | False Discovery Rate |
| FPKM | Fragments Per Kilobase of Transcript per Million Mapped Reads |
| GEO | Gene Expression Omnibus |
| GSEA | Gene Set Enrichment Analysis |
| IFN-γ | Interferon Gamma |
| IL6 | Interleukin 6 |
| MSigDB | Molecular Signatures Database |
| NES | Normalized Enrichment Score |
| NF-κB | Nuclear Factor Kappa B |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| QC | Quality Control |
| RNA-seq | RNA Sequencing |
| ROS | Reactive Oxygen Species |
| scRNA-seq | Single-Cell RNA Sequencing |
| SMC | Smooth Muscle Cell |
| STAT | Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription |
| TF | Transcription Factor |
| TGF-β | Transforming Growth Factor Beta |
| TNFα | Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha |
| ULM | Univariate Linear Model |
| UMAP | Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection |