| ADG | Average Daily Gain |
| AMP | Adenosine Monophosphate |
| ATP | Adenosine Triphosphate |
| cAMP | Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate |
| cGMP | Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate |
| CDP | Cytidine Diphosphate |
| DEGs | Differentially Expressed Genes |
| DAMs | Differentially Accumulated Metabolites |
| DMs | Differential Metabolites |
| ESI | Electrospray Ionization |
| FC | Fold Change |
| FPKM | Fragments Per Kilobase of Transcript Per Million Mapped Reads |
| GH | Growth Hormone |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| GSEA | Gene Set Enrichment Analysis |
| IGF-1 | Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| LC-MS/MS | Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry |
| LysoPC | Lysophosphatidylcholine |
| LPE | Lysophosphatidylethanolamine |
| mTOR | Mammalian Target of Rapamycin |
| NDUFA11 | NADH:Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase Subunit A11 |
| NDUFS6 | NADH:Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase Subunit S6 |
| NF-κB | Nuclear Factor-kappa B |
| OPLS-DA | Orthogonal Partial Least Squares–Discriminant Analysis |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PC | Phosphatidylcholine |
| PE | Paired-End |
| PKG | Protein Kinase G |
| PLS-DA | Partial Least Squares–Discriminant Analysis |
| QC | Quality Control |
| SLC7A5 | Solute Carrier Family 7 Member 5 |
| SM | Sphingomyelin |
| TCA | Tricarboxylic Acid |
| VIP | Variable Importance in Projection |