| AB/PAS | Alcian Blue/Periodic Acid-Schiff |
| ALT | Alanine aminotransferase |
| cAMP | Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate |
| CD | Cadmium |
| CHOL | Cholesterol |
| CON | Control |
| DEGs | Differentially expressed genes |
| FDR | Benjamin-Hochberg false discovery rate |
| FMT | Fecal microbiota transplantation |
| HE | Hematoxylin and eosin |
| LDA | Linear discriminant analysis |
| LEfSe | Linear discriminant analysis effect size |
| LPS | Lipopolysaccharide |
| MCEC | Mouse Colonic Epithelial Cells |
| NMDS | Non-metric multidimensional scaling |
| NSAIDs | Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs |
| NTA | Nanoparticle tracking analysis |
| OPLS-DA | Orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| PCoA | Principal coordinates analysis |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SM-Exo | Sheep milk-derived exosome |
| TEM | Transmission electron microscopy |