Standardised Nomenclature, Abbreviations, and Units for the Study of Bone Marrow Adiposity: Report of the Nomenclature Working Group of the International Bone Marrow Adiposity Society

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Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2019; 10: 923.

Published online 2020 Jan 24. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2019.00923

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Table 6

Summary of terms and abbreviations used to refer to progenitors for BMAds.

Abbreviation	Term used	Year first used^*	No. of papers using this term^*	Recommended term(s) and abbreviation(s)
SSC	Skeletal stem cell (SSC)	2004	12	Skeletal stem cell (SSC)
	Skeletal stem cell (no abbreviation)	2004	11
	Mouse skeletal stem cell (mSSC)	2015	1
	human skeletal stem cell (hSSC)	2018	1
BMSC	Bone marrow stromal cell	2004	20	Use BMSC to refer to bone marrow stromal cells (see text for further considerations)
	Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell	2013	5
	Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell	2012	1
	Bone marrow stromal cell (mBMSC)^**	2015	1
	Bone mesenchymal stem cell	2016	1
	Bone-derived marrow mesenchymal stem cell	2017	1
	Bone marrow stromal cell (BM stromal cell)	2017	1
	Bone marrow mesenchymal cell	2018	1
	Bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cell	2018	1
	Not defined	2018	1
	Bone marrow mesenchymal stem/stromal cell	2019	1
MSC	Mesenchymal stem cell	2003	59	Don't use
	Mesenchymal stromal cell	2012	10
	Abbreviation not defined	2015	5
	Human mesenchymal stem cell (hMSC)	2004	4
	Bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cell	2014	4
	Mesenchymal stem/stromal cell	2016	4
	Marrow stromal cell	2003	3
	Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell	2015	3
	Bone marrow stromal cell	2004	2
	Human bone marrow stromal cell (hMSC)	2004	1
	Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell	2012	1
	Mesenchymal progenitor	2016	1
	Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell	2018	1
	Bone mesenchymal stem cell	2018	1
BM-MSC	Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell	2013	5	Don't use
	Bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cell	2018	2
	Bone marrow MSC	2017	1
	Bone marrow skeletal stem cell^‡	2018	1
	Bone marrow stromal stem cell^‡	2019	1
No abbreviation used (see Supplementary Table 5)

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Data are presented as described for Table 2; asterisks (^*) are shown in the column headers to emphasise that other uses may exist. Terms are organised by abbreviation used, and then by frequency and date of use. Further considerations are provided in the main text. Terms used without an abbreviation, and references for papers using each combination of term and abbreviation, are presented in Supplementary Table 5.

^**mBMSC, mouse bone marrow stromal cell.

^‡Although we recommend using “skeletal stem cell” and “bone marrow stromal cell,” the former should be abbreviated as “SSC” rather than “BM-MSC”; and the latter should be described as a “stromal cell,” not a “stem cell,” and should be abbreviated as “BMSC,” not as “BM-MSC”.