| OA | Osteoarthritis |
| CRISPR | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats |
| Cas | Cas nuclease |
| crRNA | CRISPR RNA |
| tracrRNA | trans-activating crRNA |
| PAM | protospacer adjacent motif |
| sgRNA | single guide RNA |
| MSC | Mesenchymal stem cells |
| miRNA | Micro RNA |
| EV | Extracellular vesicles |
| IL-1β | Interleukin 1 beta |
| TNFα | Tumor Necrosis Factor |
| Hac | Human articular cartilage |
| IL1-R1 | IL-1β cytokine receptor 1 |
| BGLAP | Osteocalcin |
| Has2 | Hyaluronan synthase 2 |
| PRG4 | Lubricin |
| Runx2 | Runt Related Transcription Factor 2 |
| Hrdl | E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase hrd-like protein 1 |
| Mmp13 | Matrix metalloprotein 13 |
| Cx43 | Connexin 43 |
| Cbx4 | Chromobox 4 |
| Foxd1 | Forkhead box D1 |
| YAP | Yes-associated protein 1 |
| NHEJ | Non-homologous end joining |
| HDR | Homology Directed Repair |
| TALENs | Transcription activator-like effector nucleases |
| ZFN | Zinc finger nucleases |