| FA | Folic acid |
| THF | tetrahydrofolate |
| DHFR | dihydrofolate reductase enzyme |
| hDHFR | human DHFR |
| bDHFR | bovine DHFR |
| rhDHFR | recombinant human DHFR |
| hTS | human thymidylate synthase |
| NADPH | nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate |
| dUMP | dihydrofolate synthase (DHFS), deoxyuridine monophosphate |
| dTMP | deoxythymidine monophosphate |
| 5,10-Methylene THF | N5-N10-methylenetetrahydrofolate |
| TrxR | thioredoxin reductases |
| FRs | folate receptors |
| ct-DNA | calf thymus-DNA |
| RNR | ribonucleotide reductase |
| TS | thymidylate synthase |
| TP | thymidylated phosphorylase |
| MTX | methotrexate |
| ANN | artificial neural network |
| PDB | Protein Data Bank |
| Asp127 | Aspartate 127 |
| Glu30 | Glutamate 30 |
| Phe31 | Phenylalanine |
| ELISA assay | enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay |
| FDA | U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
| EMA | European Medicines Agency |
| ADMET | absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, toxicity |
| OVCAR-3 | ovarian cancer cell line |
| MDA-MB-435 | melanoma cell line |
| NSCLC | non-small-cell lung carcinoma |
| HCC | hepatocellular carcinoma |
| A549 | adenocarcinomic human alveolar basal epithelial cells |
| SK-OV-3 | human ovary cancer cell line |
| HCT15; HCT116 | human colon adenocarcinoma colorectal adenocarcinoma |
| K562 | human chronic myeloid leukemia cell |
| HeLa | human of immortal cervical cancer cell |
| KB | keratin-forming tumor cell line HeLa |
| MCF-7; MDA-MB-231; MDA-MB-468 | human breast cancer cell line |
| DU145 | human prostate cancer cell line |
| HMEC | normal human mammary epithelial cells |
| HL-60 | human caucasian promyelocytic leukemia cell line |
| NCI-H1299; NCI-H522 | human non-small cell lung carcinoma cell line |
| HepG2 | human liver cancer cell line |
| SK-n-SH | human neuroblastoma |
| A17 | amacrine cells in mammalian retina |
| SAR | structure activity relationships |