UC	Ulcerative Colitis
DSS	Dextran Sulfate Sodium
IOM	Inonotus obliquus crude melanin
SEM	Scanning Electron Microscope
FTIR	Fourier transform infrared
EPR	Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
TGA	Thermogravimetric analysis
HPLC	High Performance Liquid Chromatography
DAI	Disease Activity Index
H&E	Haematoxylin and eosin
AB-PAS	Alcian Blue-Periodic Acid Schiff
TNF-α	Tumor necrosis factor-α
TJ	Tight Junction
MPO	Myeloperoxidase
ZO-1	zonula occludens-1
MUC2	mucin 2
CitH3	Citrullinated Histone H3
Ly6g	Lymphocyte antigen 6 complex, locus G
PAD4	Peptidylarginine deiminase 4
PCoA	Principal Co-ordinates Analysis
NMDS	Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling
LEFSE	Linear Discriminant Analysis Effect Size
LDA	Latent Dirichlet Allocation