| ISAPP | International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics |
| UTHSCSA | University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio |
| SCI-CM | Servicios Centrales de Investigación en Cultivos Marinos |
| ECPs | Extracellular Product |
| LPS | Lipopolysaccharide |
| CRTL | Control |
| VP | Vibrio proteolyticus |
| qPCR | Quantitative PCR |
| TSA | Tryptic soy agar |
| TSB | Tryptic soy broth |
| CFU | Colony-Forming Unit |
| SEM | Scanning Electron Microscope |
| EA | Apical area of enterocytes |
| NMDS | Non-metric multidimensional scaling |
| ASVs | Amplicon sequence variants |
| Cq | Quantification Cycle |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| FL | Fold length |
| EH | Enterocyte height |
| LP | Lamina propria |
| ML | Muscular layer |
| SBL | Submucosa layer thickness |
| GC | Goblet cells |
| AE | Enterocyte apical area |
| NMDS plot | Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling plot |
| NA | Not assigned |