| AML | acute myelogenous leukemia |
| ASM | aggressive systemic mastocytosis |
| CTLA-4 | cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 |
| DC | dendritic cell |
| DNA-PKcs | DNA-dependent protein kinase, catalytic subunit |
| FcεRIγ | Fc receptor γ chain |
| FGF | fibroblast growth factor |
| Gab | Grb2-associated binder family member (Gab) |
| GIST | gastrointestinal stromal tumor |
| GM-CSF | granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor |
| GrB | granzyme B |
| HLA | human leukocyte antigen |
| IFN | interferon |
| IL | interleukin |
| ILT | immunoglobulin-like transcript |
| ISM | indolent systemic mastocytosis |
| ITAM | immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motifs |
| ITIM | immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif |
| JAK | Janus kinase |
| JNK | c-Jun N-terminal kinase |
| KIR | killer immunoglobulin-like receptor |
| LAG-3 | lymphocyte activation gene-3 |
| LIF | leukemia growth factor |
| MAPK | mitogen-activated protein kinase |
| MCL | mast cell leukemia |
| MDSC | myeloid derived suppressive cell |
| MHC | major histocompatibility |
| MMP | matrix metalloprotease |
| NK | natural killer |
| NGF | nerve growth factor |
| PB-mast | human cultured mast cells established from peripheral blood derived from healthy volunteers |
| PD | programmed death |
| PI3K | phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase |
| PlGF | placental growth factor |
| PTdNK | pregnancy trained decidual NK cell |
| SCF | stem cell factor |
| sFlt-1 | soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 |
| SHIP | Src homology 2 domain-containing inositol 5-phosphatase |
| SHP | Src homology 2 domain-containing tyrosine phosphatase |
| SM-AHNMD | systemic mastocytosis with an associated clonal hematologic non-MC-lineage disease |
| STAT | signal transducer and activator of transcription |
| TGF | transforming growth factor |
| TIGIT | T cell immunoglobulin ITIM domain |
| TIM-3 | T cell immunoglobulin and mucin-domain containing-3 |
| TKD | tyrosine-kinase domain |
| TNF | tumor necrosis factor |
| Treg | regulatory T cell |
| VEGF | vascular endothelial growth factor |
| VISTA | V-domain Ig suppressor of T cell activation |