| Acronym | Meaning |
| FIRST | Far Infrared And Submillimetre Space Telescope |
| SCRPA | Self-consistent Random Phase Approximation |
| PRV | Pseudorabies Virus |
| DGGE | Denaturing-gradient Gel Electrophoresis |
| BBIC | Bioluminescent Bioreporter Integrated Circuits |
| ISCC | Intergranular Stress-corrosion Cracking |
| CPSS | Coulomb-repulsion Perturbed Stationary State |
| ILS | Ionization Loss Spectroscopy |
| ICCVAM | US Interagency Coordination Committee On The Validation Of Alternative Methods |
| PPAR | Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor |