DEP	Differentially expressed proteins
LC-MS/MS	Liquid chromatography (LC)-tandem mass spectrometry (MS)
HPLC/MS	High Performance Liquid Chromatography coupled mass spectrometry
CID LC-MS/MS	Collision-induced dissociation, Liquid chromatography (LC)-tandem mass spectrometry
SELDI-TOF-MS	Surface-Enhanced Laser Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight mass spectrometry
2D SDS-PAGE	Two-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
iTRAQ	Isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantification
1D-PAGE	One dimensional (1D)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE)
DEPs	Differentially expressed proteins
ESI-QTOF MS/MS	Electrospray ionization-quadrupole/time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry
2D DIGE	Two-dimensional differential gel electrophoresis