CD8-positive, alpha-beta T lymphocyte differentiation, CD8-positive, alpha-beta T-cell differentiation, CD8-positive, alpha-beta T-lymphocyte differentiation, CD8-positive, alpha-beta T cell development
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Definition
The process in which a relatively unspecialized T cell acquires specialized features of a mature CD8-positive, alpha-beta T cell.
Source:ISBN:0781735149
Comment
Note that immunologists typically use the word 'development' to refer to cells of B or T cell lineages undergoing the process that GO describes as 'cell differentiation'.