| IBD | Inflammatory bowel disease |
| IBS | Irritable bowel syndrome |
| CD | Crohn’s disease |
| UC | Ulcerative colitis |
| CDAI | Crohn’s Disease Activity Index |
| RI | Rachmilewitz index |
| ADMA | Asymmetric dimethylarginine |
| SDMA | Symmetric dimethylarginine |
| DMA | Dimethylamine |
| PRMT | Arginine N-methyltransferase |
| DDAH | Dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase |
| NOS | Nitric oxide synthase |
| ODC | Ornithine decarboxylase |
| ARG | Arginase |