AmiGO 2: Term Details for "brown fat cell differentiation" (GO:0050873)

Accession: GO:0050873
Name: brown fat cell differentiation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: brown adipocyte cell differentiation, brown adipocyte differentiation
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a brown adipocyte, an animal connective tissue cell involved in adaptive thermogenesis. Brown adipocytes contain multiple small droplets of triglycerides and a high number of mitochondria. Source: PMID:12588810
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0050873 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to brown fat cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to brown fat cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for brown fat cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
brown fat cell differentiation	RO:0002315	brown adipocyte (CL:0000449)
brown fat cell differentiation	is_a	fat cell differentiation (GO:0045444)

subject	relation	object
negative regulation of brown fat cell differentiation (GO:1903444)	RO:0002212	brown fat cell differentiation
positive regulation of brown fat cell differentiation (GO:0090336)	RO:0002213	brown fat cell differentiation
regulation of brown fat cell differentiation (GO:0090335)	RO:0002211	brown fat cell differentiation

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