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white fat cell differentiation

Term Information

Accession
GO:0050872
Name
white fat cell differentiation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
white adipocyte cell differentiation, white adipocyte differentiation
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a white adipocyte, an animal connective tissue cell involved in energy storage. White adipocytes have cytoplasmic lipids arranged in a unique vacuole. Source: PMID:12508945
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0050872 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of white fat cell differentiation (GO:0050872)
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white fat cell differentiation [is_a relation] is_a  fat cell differentiation (GO:0045444)
Children of white fat cell differentiation (GO:0050872)
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white fat cell differentiation involved in mammary gland fat development (GO:0060642) [is_a relation] is_a  white fat cell differentiation
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