| ASBT | apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter |
| BA | bile acid |
| BMI | body mass index |
| CAR | carnitine |
| CID | collision-induced dissociation |
| CYP7A1 | cholesterol-7-α-hydroxylase |
| DNL | de novo lipogenesis |
| FA | fatty acids |
| FA | formic acid |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| FGF19 | fibroblast growth factor 19 |
| FXR | farnesoid X receptor |
| IBABP | ileal bile acid binding protein |
| IS | internal standard |
| LC-MS | liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry |
| LPC | lysophosphatidylcholine |
| LPE | lysophosphatidylethanolamine |
| LPI | lysophosphatidylinositol |
| LPS | lipopolysaccharide |
| MASH | metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis |
| MASLD | metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease |
| MFE | molecular feature extraction |
| OPLS-DA | orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis |
| PC | phosphatidylcholine |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| PI | phosphatidylinositol |
| PLA2 | phospholipase A2 |
| QC | quality control |
| QTOF | quadrupole time of flight |
| ROS | reactive oxygen species |
| RSD | relative standard deviation |
| RT | retention time |
| RXR | retinoid X receptor |
| ST | sterol lipids |
| TCA | tricarboxylic acid |
| TS | total useful signal |
| UA | uric acid |
| VLDL | very-low-density lipoprotein |