| ADP | adenosine 5′-Diphosphate |
| AFM | Atomic Force Microcopy |
| AMP | Adenosine 5′-Monophosphate |
| ATP | Adenosine 5′-Triphosphate |
| ATR-FTIR | Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy using an attenuated total reflectance accessory |
| BSA | Bovine Serum Albumin |
| C12E8 | dodecyloctaglycol |
| CD39 | nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 1 |
| CPPD | Calcium pyrophosphate dehydrate |
| DLS | Dynamic Light Scattering |
| DPPC | 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine |
| DPPE | 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine |
| GPI | Glycosylphosphatidylinositol |
| HA | apatite |
| HEPES | N-(2-hydroxyethyl) piperazine-N′-ethanesulfonic acid |
| LUVs | large unillamelar vesicles |
| MVs | Matrix vesicles |
| cMV | Matrix vesicles with partial cleaved NAP (Treated with PI-PL-C) |
| NKA | Na,K,-ATPase |
| NPP1 | Nucleotide Pyrophosphatases/Phosphodiesterases |
| PC | phosphocholine |
| PC-1 | glycoprotein-1 |
| PHOSPHO1 | Orphan phosphatase 1 |
| Pi | phosphate |
| PI | polydispersity index |
| PI-PLC | phosphatidylinositol phospholipase C |
| PiT-1 | phosphate transporter 1 |
| PMP | potential of mineral propagation |
| PPi | Pyrophosphate |
| PS-CPLX | phosphtidylserine complex containing calcium and phosphate |
| SCL | Synthetic Cartilage Lymph |
| SDS | sodium dodecyl sulfate |
| SM | sphingomyelin |
| SMPD3 | sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase 3 |
| TCA | trichloroacetic acid |
| TNAP | tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase |
| Tris | Tris[hydroxymethyl]aminomethane |