Abbreviation	Full form
API	Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient
FDA	Food and Drug Administration
BCS	Biopharmaceutics Classification System
BBB	Blood Brain Barrier
IVIVC	In vitro In vivo Co-relationship
CYP450	Cytochrome P450
t1/2	Biological half-life
TI	Therapeutic Index
TW	Therapeutic Window
MEC	Minimum effective concentration
PK	Pharmacokinetics
ED50	Effective dose in 50% of subjects
TD50	Toxic dose in 50% of subjects
DDS	Drug delivery systems
CRDDS	Controlled release drug delivery systems
EPR	Enhanced permeability and retention
PLK 1	Serine/threonine-protein kinase
siRNA	Small interfering Ribose Nucleic acid
CNTs	Carbon nanotubes
SWCNTs	Single-walled carbon nanotubes
MWCNTs	Multiwalled carbon nanotubes
MMP	Matrix metallo proteinases
LCST	Lower critical solution temperature
MIP	Molecularly Imprinted Polymers
CRISPR Cas9	Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
sgRNA	Single guide RNA
LOC	Lab-on-a-chip
QD	Quantun dots
RES	Reticulo Endothelial system