| AKI | acute kidney injury |
| BC | Breast cancer |
| BLI | bioluminescence imaging |
| BMSC | bone marrow stromal cell |
| BW | body weight |
| CAGR | compound annual growth rate |
| CV | cellular vesicle |
| CT | computed tomography |
| DGUC | density-gradient ultracentrifugation |
| DLS | dynamic light scattering |
| EPCs | endothelial progenitor cells |
| EVs | extracellular vesicles |
| FI | fluorescence intensity |
| FP | fluorescence protein |
| GMP | good manufacturing practice |
| GNP | gold nanoparticle |
| GvHD | Graft-versus-host disease |
| ICP-MS | inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy |
| IN | intranasal |
| ISEV | International Society for Extracellular Vesicles |
| IV | intravenous |
| IP | intraperitoneal |
| MDSCs | myeloid derived suppressor cells |
| MFDS | Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, Korea |
| MISEV | Minimal Information for Studies of Extracellular Vesicles |
| MHC | Major histocompatibility complex |
| MPI | magnetic particle imaging |
| MRI | magnetic resonance imaging |
| MSCs | mesenchymal stem/stromal cells |
| MVBs | multivesicular bodies |
| NA | not applicable |
| ND | not determined |
| NIR | near infrared |
| NR | nuclear imaging |
| NTA | nanoparticle tracking analysis |
| OMV | outer membrane vesicle |
| PEG | polyethylene glycol |
| PET | position-emission tomography |
| QCs | quality controls |
| RI | radioisotope |
| RLU | relative luminescence unit |
| ROVS | retro-orbital venous sinus |
| RPS | resistive pulse sensing |
| SC | subcutaneous |
| SEC | size exclusion chromatography |
| SPECT | single-photon emission computed tomography |
| SPIO | superparamagnetic iron oxide |
| TEI | total exosome isolation reagent |
| TFF | tangential flow filtration |
| UC | ultracentrifugation |
| UC-MSC | umbilical cord MSC |
| UF | ultrafiltration |