| MRS | cultivation media for Lactobacillus species |
| YPG | cultivation media that contain yeast extract, peptone, and glucose |
| DPPH | 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (i.e., 2,2-Diphenyl-1-(2,4,6-trinitrophenyl)hydrazin-1-yl) |
| GAE | Galic Acid equivalents |
| MRC-5 | diploid cell culture line composed of fibroblasts |
| HeLa | cervical cancer cell line |
| MCF-7 | human breast cancer cell line |
| HT-9 | colorectal tumor cell line |
| HL-60 | promyelocytic leukemia cell line |
| K562 | human chronic myeloid leukemia cell line |
| CCRF-CEM | acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell line |
| P3HRI | Burkitt lymphoma cells |
| P338 | murine leukemia cell line |
| Bax | proapoptotic protein; apoptosis regulator |
| Bcl-2 | proapoptotic protein apoptosis regulator |
| p53 | tumor suppressor gene |
| p21 | protein which regulates cell proliferation by inhibiting the cell cycle through the cyclin kinase pathway |
| G1 | cell phase in which the cell grows physically larger copies of organelles and makes the molecular building blocks it will need in later steps |
| G0 | cell phase also known as the resting phase is the phase of the cell cycle during which a cell is neither dividing nor preparing to divide |