| ALI | Acute lung injury |
| BALF | Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid |
| BPIFA1 | Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein fold-containing family A member 1 |
| SPLUNC1 | Short palate, lung, and nasal epithelial clone 1 |
| LPS | Lipopolysaccharide |
| ELISA | Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay |
| GSEA | Gene Set Enrichment Analysis |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| qPCR | Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction |
| RNA-seq | RNA sequencing |
| WT | Wild Type |
| KO | Knockout |
| NF-κB | Nuclear factor kappa B |
| TLR4 | Toll-like receptor 4 |
| MyD88 | Myeloid differentiation primary response 88 |