| EVs | Extracellular Vesicles | |
| EX | Exosomes | |
| LMWMs | Low-Molecular-Weight Metabolites | |
| MV | Microvesicles | |
| UC | Ultracentrifugation | |
| SEC | Size exclusion chromatography | |
| DC | Differential centrifugation | |
| UF | Ultrafiltration | |
| IA | Immune-affinity techniques | |
| nPES | Nanoplasmon-enhanced scattering | |
| TEX | Tumor-derived Exosomes | |
| FFF | Field-flow fractionation | |
| WB | Western blotting | |
| FC | Flow cytometry | |
| ISAs | Immunosorbent assays | |
| EM | Electron microscopy imaging | |
| AFM | Atomic force microscopy | |
| NTA | Nanoparticle tracking analysis | |
| PCS | Photon correlation spectroscopy | |
| tRPS | Tunable resistive pulse sensing | |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry | |
| GC | Gas chromatography | |
| LC | Liquid chromatography | |
| UPLC | Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography | |
| TLC | Thin Layer Chromatography | |
| MALDI | Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization | |
| EI | Electron Impact | |
| ESI | Electrospray Ionization | |
| APCI | Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization | |
| TOF | Time-Of-Flight | |
| Q | Quadrupole | |
| QqQ/QQQ | Triple Quadrupole | |
| LTQ | Linear Trap Quadrupole | |
| GL | Glycerolipids | |
| GP | Glycerophospholipids | |
| GSL | Glycosphingolipids | |
| PL | Phospholipids | |
| SP | Sphingolipids | |
| ST | Sterol lipids | |
| PR | Prenol lipids | |
| FA | Fatty Acids | |
| RBS | Red blood cells | |
| CAFs | Cancer-associated fibroblasts | |
| PCa | Prostate Cancer | |
| PANC | Pancreatic cancer | |
| uEV | Urine derived extracellular vesicles | |
| pEV | Plasma derived extracellular vesicles | |
| TAG | Triacylglyceroles | |
| Cer | Ceramides | |
| PS | Phosphatidylserine | |
| HMDB | Human Metabolome Database |