| VMC | Viral myocarditis |
| DCM | Dilated cardiomyopathy |
| CVB3 | Coxsackievirus B3 |
| aVMC | Acute viral myocarditis |
| cVMC | Chronic viral myocarditis |
| CON | Normal controls |
| HF | Heart failure |
| PBS | Phosphate buffered saline |
| HCA | Hierarchical clustering analysis |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| RPTs | Response permutation tests |
| ROC | Receiver operating characteristic |
| PIV | Pathway impact values |
| LVEF | Left ventricle ejection fraction |
| BCAAs | Branch chain amino acids |
| PLS-DA | Partial least squares discriminant analysis |
| OPLS-DA | Orthogonal signal correction partial least-squares discriminant analysis |