| ALI | Acute lung injury |
| ARDS | Acute respiratory distress syndrome |
| BALF | Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid |
| BCA | Bicinchoninic acid assay |
| CCK-8 | Cell counting kit-8 |
| CO2 | Carbon dioxide |
| DMEM | Dulbecco’s modified Eagle medium |
| ECL | Enhanced chemiluminescence |
| ELISA | Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay |
| ERK | Extracellular regulated protein kinases |
| Go | Gene ontology |
| GSEA | Gene set enrichment analysis |
| IκBα | Inhibitor of nuclear factor kappa B alpha |
| IL-1β | Interleukin-1β |
| IL-6 | Interleukin-6 |
| JNK | c-Jun N-terminal kinase |
| KEGG | Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes |
| LPS | Lipopolysaccharide |
| MAPK | Mitogen-activated protein kinase |
| mTOR | Mechanistic target of rapamycin |
| NF-κB | Nuclear factor kappa-B |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| PI3K | Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase |
| PMA | Phorbol myristate acetate |
| PPI | Protein–protein interaction |
| ROC | Receiver operating characteristic |
| RPMI | Roswell Park Memorial Institute |
| SLEL | Sesquiterpenoid lactones of Eupatorium lindleyanum DC. |
| TCM | Traditional Chinese medicine |
| TNF-α | Tumor necrosis factor-α |
| UPLC-QTOF-MS | Ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with time-of-flight mass spectrometry |
| VIP | Variable importance in projection |
| WGCNA | Weighted gene co-expression network analysis |