| AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
| AKAR | A-kinase activity reporter |
| AP | action potential |
| BRET | bioluminescence resonance energy transfer |
| CRISPR | clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| CML | chronic myelogenous leukemia |
| CRM | caloric restriction mimetics |
| CMs | cardiomyocytes |
| cpYFP | circularly permuted yellow fluorescent protein |
| DAG | diacylglycerol |
| EAD | early afterdepolarization |
| ERKs | extracellular signal-regulated kinases |
| ECFP | enhanced cyan fluorescent protein |
| EGFR | epidermal growth factor receptor |
| FPs | fluorescent proteins |
| FLIM | fluorescence lifetime imaging |
| FLT | fluorescence lifetime |
| FRET | Förster resonance energy transfer |
| GPCR | G protein-coupled receptor |
| GEVI | genetically encoded voltage indicators |
| GECI | genetically encoded calcium indicators |
| HTS | high-throughput screening |
| HMGB1 | high-mobility group box 1 protein |
| iPSCs | induced pluripotent stem cells |
| ICD | immunogenic cell death |
| JNKs | c-Jun N-terminal kinases |
| LDG | lactate dehydrogenase |
| MAPK | mitogen-activated protein kinase |
| NLS | nuclear localization signal |
| OXPHOS | oxidative phosphorylation |
| PIP2 | phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate |
| PLC | phospholipase C |
| PLB | phospholamban |
| PS1 | presenilin 1 |
| PTU | 1-phenyl 2-thiourea |
| ROS | reactive oxygen species |
| RTKs | receptors of growth factors, cytokines, and hormones |
| SERCA2a | sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase |
| SFCAI | switch-on fluorescence-based caspase-3-like protease activity indicator |
| SPB | streptavidin binding protein |
| ssODN | single-stranded DNA oligonucleotide |
| TMRM | tetramethylrhodamine, methyl ester |
| UGI | uracil DNA glycosylase inhibitor |
| VEGFR | vascular endothelial growth factor |
| VGCs | voltage-gated ion channels |