| HKG(s) | Housekeeping gene(s) |
| RT-qPCR | Reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction |
| RNA | Ribonucleic acid |
| cDNA | Complementary deoxyribonucleic acid |
| 36B4 | Ribosomal protein, large, P0 |
| HPRT | Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase |
| Actb | Actin, beta |
| HMBS | Hydroxymethylbilane synthase |
| GAPDH | Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase |
| 18S | 18S ribosomal RNA |
| PPARγ | Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma, transcript variant 2 |
| L. paracasei | Lacticaseibacillus paracasei |
| MIQE | Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments |
| DMEM | Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium |
| FBS | Fetal bovine serum |
| PBS | Phosphate-buffered saline |
| BM | Basal medium |
| AIM | Adipogenic induction media |
| AMM | Maintenance media |
| MRS | de Man, Rogosa, and Sharpe broth-treated induced control group |
| IC | Untreated, induced control group |
| M2.1, C8, C15, P4 | Experimental group of induced adipocytes treated with 10% v/v supernatants from the respective L. paracasei strain |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| CV | Coefficient of variation |
| r | Pearson correlation coefficient |
| Ct | Cycle threshold |
| ∆Ct | delta Ct |
| ∆∆Ct | delta delta Ct |