| AFM | Atomic Force Microscope |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| DDE | Dynamic Data Exchange |
| DMSO | Dimethylsulfoxid  |
| DPh-PC | 1,2-Diphytanoyl-sn-Glycero-3-Phosphocholine |
| GPIB | General Purpose Interface Bus |
| HPLC | High Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. |
| LPC | Lysophosphatidylcholine |
| Lysolecithin | 1-Palmitoyl-2-Glycero-sn-Phosphatidylcholine |
| PC | Phosphatidylcholine |
| Stearylamine | Octadecylamine,
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