♠ — Trade name of a medicinal product
℘ — medicinal product is not registered in the Russian Federation
⊗ — The drug has been discontinued from the Russian market, i.e. excluded from the State Register of Medicines
A — Adenine
ACTH — Adrenocorticotropic hormone
ADA — Adenosine deaminase
ADH — Alcohol dehydrogenase
AFP — Alpha-fetoprotein
AIDS — Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
ALDH — Aldehyde dehydrogenase
bp — Base pair
C — Cytosine
cDNA — Complementary DNA
CGH — Comparative genomic hybridization
CNS — Central nervous system
CT — Computed tomography
DNA — Deoxyribonucleic acid
DPYD — Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase
FISH — Fluorescence in situ hybridization technique
G — Guanine
G6PDH — Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
GIT — Gastrointestinal tract
GST — Glutathione S-transferase
hCG — Human chorionic gonadotropin
HIV — Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HLA — Human leukocyte antigen
IFN — Interferon
Ig — Immunoglobulin (used to specify the immunoglobulin class)
IL — Interleukin
IQ — Intelligence quotient
LDL — Low-density lipoprotein
MRI — Magnetic resonance imaging
mRNA — Messenger RNA
mtDNA — Mitochondrial DNA
NAT — N-acetyltransferase
np — Nucleotide pair
OMIM — McKusick catalogue (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man)
OR — Odds ratio
PAPP-A — Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A
PCR — Polymerase chain reaction
PON — Paraoxonase
RNA — Ribonucleic acid
rRNA — Ribosomal RNA
SNP — Single nucleotide polymorphisms
SULT — Sulfotransferase
T — Thymine
TNF — Tumor necrosis factor
TPMT — Thiopurine methyltransferase
tRNA — Transport RNA
U — Uracil
UDP-GlcA — Uridine diphosphate glucuronic acid
UGT — UDP-glucuronyltransferase
USI — Ultrasound imaging
VNTR — Variable number tandem repeat
WHO — World Health Organization