| Abbreviations | Meaning |
 | DKTC | Dog Kidney Tissue Culture |
 | HAK | Hamster Kidney |
 | HSPN | Henoch-Schönlein Purpura Nephritis |
 | MKTC | Monkey Kidney Tissue Culture |
 | LKKS | Liver, Kidneys, Spleen |
 | HCN | Health Communication Network; Hereditary Chronic Nephritis |
 | APKD | Adult-onset Polycystic Kidney Disease |
 | KF | Kenner-fecal Medium; Kidney Function; Klippel-Feil [syndrome]; Knowledge Finder |
 | HK | Hand To Knee; Heat-killed; Heel-to-knee; Hexokinase; Human Kidney |
 | KFT | Kidney Function Test |
 | BEK | Bovine Embryonic Kidney [cells] |
 | HEK | Human Embryo Kinase; Human Embryonic Kidney |
 | MDCK | Madin-Darby Canine Kidney |
 | PKD-2 | Polycystic Kidney Disease Gene-2 |
 | LSKM | Liver-spleen-kidney-megaly |