AmiGO 2: Term Details for "transitional stage B cell differentiation" (GO:0002332)

Accession: GO:0002332
Name: transitional stage B cell differentiation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: transitional stage B lymphocyte differentiation, transitional stage B-cell differentiation, transitional stage B-lymphocyte differentiation, transitional stage B cell development
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process in which immature B cells from the bone marrow become mature B cells in the spleen. Transitional stage B cells are subdivided into transitional one (T1) and transitional two (T2) stages and are short-lived and functionally incompetent. Source: ISBN:0781735149, GOC:jal
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:0002332 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
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subject	relation	object
transitional stage B cell differentiation	is_a	immature B cell differentiation (GO:0002327)
transitional stage B cell differentiation	RO:0002315	transitional stage B cell (CL:0000818)

subject	relation	object
transitional two stage B cell differentiation (GO:0002334)	is_a	transitional stage B cell differentiation
transitional one stage B cell differentiation (GO:0002333)	is_a	transitional stage B cell differentiation

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