| BM | Basal medium |
| cal A | Calyculin A |
| CFA | Colony formation assay |
| CT | Computed tomography |
| DAPI | 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole |
| DMSO | Dimethyl sulfoxide |
| DNA DSB | DNA double-strand breaks |
| EA cells | Early apoptotic cells |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| HBSS | Hanks’ balanced salt solution medium |
| HEPES | 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethane-sulfonic acid |
| IRIF | Ionizing radiation-induced foci |
| LAN cells | Late apoptotic/necrotic cells |
| PAB | Pre-apoptotic bodies |
| PI | Propidium iodide |
| RPMI | Roswell Park Memorial Institute medium |
| RT | Room temperature |
| Spearman ROC | Spearman rank-order correlations test |
| UCB MNC | Umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells |
| UCBL | Umbilical cord blood lymphocytes |