| Acronym | Meaning |
| PLC | Planar Lightwave Circuit |
| ERCS | Elastic Recoil Coincidence Spectroscopy |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| BRL | Buffalo Rat Liver |
| PCMT | Protein Carboxyl Methyltransferase |
| TOFMS | Time Of Flight Mass Spectrometry |
| TCF | T Cell Factor |
| DBRA | Division Of Biometry And Risk Assessment |
| MRM | Multiple Reaction Monitoring |
| LAESA | Laser Ablation Emission Spectrochemical Analysis |