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Accession
GO:0060510
Name
type II pneumocyte differentiation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
great alveolar cell differentiation, granular pneumocyte differentiation, large alveolar cell differentiation
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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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type II pneumocyte differentiation [is_a relation] is_a  lung secretory cell differentiation (GO:0061140)
type II pneumocyte differentiation [RO:0002162 relation] RO:0002162  Mammalia (NCBITaxon:40674)
type II pneumocyte differentiation [RO:0002315 relation] RO:0002315  type II pneumocyte (CL:0002063)

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