| BMMC | bone-marrow-derived mast cell |
| GFP | enhanced green fluorescent protein |
| IFNAR | type I interferon receptor |
| IFN | interferon |
| IL | interleukin |
| MC | mast cell |
| PWM-SCM | pokeweed mitogen-stimulated spleen cell-conditioned medium |
| rVSVΔm51 | recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus with a deletion of methionine at amino acid position 51 |
| TNF | tumor necrosis factor |
| TLR | Toll-like receptor |
| WT rVSV | wild-type recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (lacking the Δm51 mutation) |