Term Information

Accession
GO:0060510
Name
type II pneumocyte differentiation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
great alveolar cell differentiation, granular pneumocyte differentiation, large alveolar cell differentiation
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a type II pneumocyte. A type II pneumocyte is a surfactant secreting cell that contains abundant cytoplasm containing numerous lipid-rich multilamellar bodies. Source: GOC:dph, ISBN:0721662544, GOC:mtg_lung
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History
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Subset
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type II pneumocyte differentiation [is_a relation] is_a  lung secretory cell differentiation (GO:0061140)

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