| LRP | Lycium ruthenicum Murr. polysaccharide |
| ALI | Acute lung injury |
| LPS | Lipopolysaccharide |
| BALF | Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid |
| IL-6 | Interleukin-6 |
| IL-10 | Interleukin-10 |
| IL-1β | Interleukin-1β |
| TNF-α | Tumor necrosis factor-α |
| CCK-8 | Cell Counting Kit-8 |
| H&E | Staining hematoxylin-eosin staining |
| PBS | Phosphate-buffer saline |
| W/D | Wet/Dry Weight Ratio |
| ELISA | Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay |
| OTU | Operational Taxonomic Unit |
| PCoA | Principal Coordinate Analysis |
| NMDS | Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling |
| UPGMA | Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean |
| ANOVA | Analysis of Variance |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| FT-IR | Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy |
| HPIC | High-Pressure Ion Chromatography |
| 16S rRNA | 16S Ribosomal RNA |