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AmiGO 2: Term Details for "dendritic cell differentiation" (GO:0097028)

️Gene Ontology Consortium
️Tue Nov 05 2024

Accession

GO:0097028

Name

dendritic cell differentiation

Ontology

biological_process

Synonyms

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Alternate IDs

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Definition

The process in which a precursor cell type acquires the specialized features of a dendritic cell. A dendritic cell is a leukocyte of dendritic lineage specialized in the uptake, processing, and transport of antigens to lymph nodes for the purpose of stimulating an immune response via T cell activation. Source: CL:0000451, GOC:pr

Comment

Note that immunologists typically use the word 'maturation' to refer to dendritic cells undergoing the process that GO describes as 'cell differentiation'.

History

See term history for GO:0097028 at QuickGO

Chem. react.

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Subset

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Link to all genes and gene products annotated to dendritic cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").

Link to all direct and indirect annotations to dendritic cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").

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