| APC | Antigen presenting cell |
| Card9 | Caspase recruitment domain 9 |
| CCL | Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand |
| CCR | C-C motif chemokine receptor |
| CD | Crohn’s disease |
| CitH3 | Citrullination histone H3 |
| CLA | Cutaneous lymphocyte antigen |
| CPD | Common dendritic progenitor |
| CXCL | Chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand |
| CX3CR | Chemokine (C-X3-C motif) receptor |
| DAMPs | Damage-associated molecular patterns |
| DCs | Dendritic cells |
| DSS | Dextran sodium sulfate |
| ECM | Extracellular matrix |
| Flt3L | Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 ligand |
| Foxp3 | Forkhead Box P3 |
| G-CSF | Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor |
| GM-CSF | Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor |
| GWAS | Genome-wide association studies |
| IBD | Inflammatory bowel disease |
| IFN | Interferon |
| Ig | Immunoglobulin |
| IIC | Innate immune cells |
| iNOS | Inducible nitric oxide synthetase |
| ILCs | Innate lymphoid cells |
| IL | Interleukin |
| IRF | Interferon regulatory factor |
| MCP | Monocyte chemoattractant protein |
| MHCII | Major histocompatibility complex molecules class II |
| MIP | Macrophage inflammatory proteins |
| MMPs | Matrix metalloproteinases |
| MMT | Myofibroblast transition |
| MPO | Myeloperoxidase |
| mTOR | Mammalian target of rapamycin |
| NK | Natural killer |
| NETs | Neutrophil extracellular traps |
| NOD2 | Nucleotide binding oligomerization domain containing 2 |
| NLR | Nod-like receptors |
| PAD4 | Protein arginine deiminase 4 |
| PAMPs | Pathogen-associated molecular patterns |
| pDC | Plasmacytoid DCs |
| RA | Retinoic acid |
| PRRs | Pattern recognition receptors |
| RORγt | RAR-related orphan receptor gamma t |
| SCFAs | Short-chain fatty acids |
| scRNA-seq | Single cell RNA sequencing |
| SIPRα | Signal-regulatory protein alpha |
| STAT | Signal transducer and activator of transcription |
| Th | T-helper |
| TGF | Transforming growth factor |
| TL1A | TNF-like ligand 1 A |
| TLRs | Toll-like receptors |
| TNBS | 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid |
| TNF | Tumor necrosis factor |
| Treg | T regulatory |
| Tr1 | T regulatory type 1 |
| TWAS | Transcriptome-wide association studies |
| UC | Ulcerative colitis |
| WNT | Wingless-related integration site |
| XCR1 | Chemokine (C motif) receptor 1 |