Term Information

Accession
GO:0051138
Name
positive regulation of NK T cell differentiation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
positive regulation of NK T lymphocyte differentiation, positive regulation of NK T-cell differentiation, positive regulation of NK T-lymphocyte differentiation, positive regulation of NKT cell differentiation, positive regulation of NT cell differentiation, positive regulation of natural T cell differentiation, positive regulation of natural killer T cell differentiation, up regulation of NK T cell differentiation, up-regulation of NK T cell differentiation, upregulation of NK T cell differentiation, positive regulation of NK T cell development, activation of NK T cell differentiation, stimulation of NK T cell differentiation
Alternate IDs
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Definition
Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of natural killer T cell differentiation. Source: PMID:9133426, ISBN:0781735149, PMID:12154375
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'.
History
See term history for GO:0051138 at QuickGO
Subset
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Feedback
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Parents of positive regulation of NK T cell differentiation (GO:0051138)
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positive regulation of NK T cell differentiation [is_a relation] is_a  regulation of NK T cell differentiation (GO:0051136)
positive regulation of NK T cell differentiation [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  NK T cell differentiation (GO:0001865)
positive regulation of NK T cell differentiation [is_a relation] is_a  positive regulation of alpha-beta T cell differentiation (GO:0046638)

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