| ADP | Adenosine diphosphate |
| AMD | Age-related macular degeneration |
| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| CA9 | Carbonic anhydrase 9 |
| CKD | Chronic kidney disease |
| DDIT4 | DNA damage inducible transcript 4 |
| DEG | Differentially expressed gene |
| DMEM/F12 | Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium/Nutrient Mixture F-12 |
| DMSO | Dimethyl sulfoxide |
| DR | Diabetic retinopathy |
| DSC1 | Desmocollin 1 |
| EGLN1 | Egl-9 family hypoxia-inducible factor 1 |
| ELISA | Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay |
| ENO1 | Enolase 1 |
| FBS | Fetal bovine serum |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| HIF | Hypoxia-inducible factor |
| HIF-1α | Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α |
| HIF-PHI | Hypoxia-inducible factor–prolyl hydroxylase domain inhibitors |
| HIST1H2AC | Histone cluster 1 H2A family member c |
| HK2 | Hexokinase 2 |
| HUVEC | Human umbilical vein endothelial cell |
| ID | Inhibitor of DNA binding |
| ISM2 | Isthmin 2 |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| LDHA | Lactate dehydrogenase A |
| LOX | Lysyl oxidase |
| LVES | Large vesseI endothelial supplement |
| MCL | Markov Cluster Algorithm |
| MIF | Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (glycosylation-inhibiting factor) |
| PBS | Phosphate-buffered saline |
| PDK1 | Pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1 |
| PDK3 | Pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 3 |
| PGK1 | Phosphoglycerate kinase 1 |
| PPARGC1A | PPARG coactivator 1 alpha |
| PPI | Protein–protein interaction |
| RPE | Retinal pigment epithelium |
| SLC45A2 | Solute carrier family 45 member 2 |
| SLC7A8 | Solute carrier family 7 member 8 |
| SYK | Spleen-associated tyrosine kinase |
| TFRC | Transferrin receptor |
| VEGF | Vascular endothelial growth factor |