| ANOVA | Analysis of variance |
| AUC | Area under curve |
| EGF | Epidermal growth factor |
| EGFR | Epidermal growth factor receptor |
| ELISA | Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay |
| ESI | Electrospray ionization |
| ET-1 | Endothelin-1 |
| GU | Gastric ulcer |
| H&E | Hematoxylin and eosin |
| HETE | Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid |
| H-PPT | High-dose PPT |
| L-PPT | Low-dose PPT |
| LysoPC | Lysophosphatidylcholine |
| M-PPT | Moderate-dose PPT |
| MDA | Malondialdehyde |
| OPLS-DA | Orthogonal Projections to Latent Structures Discriminant Analysis |
| PC | Phosphatidylcholine |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PDB | Protein Data Bank |
| QC | Quality Control |
| QTOF-MS | Quadrupole Time of Flight-Mass Spectrometry |
| ROC | Receiver operating characteristic |
| RSD | Relative Standard Deviation |
| RT | Retention Time |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SM | Sphingomyelin |
| SOD | Superoxide dismutase |
| TNF-α | Tumor necrosis factor-α |
| UPLC | Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| VIP | Variable importance in the projection |