gamma-delta T cell differentiation

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Namegamma-delta T cell differentiation
IDGO_0042492
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Biological process

Exact synonym

gamma-delta T lymphocyte differentiation, gamma-delta T-cell differentiation, gamma-delta T-lymphocyte differentiation

Description

The process in which a relatively unspecialized hemopoietic cell acquires specialized features of a gamma-delta T cell. A gamma-delta T cell is a T cell that expresses a gamma-delta T cell receptor complex.

Related synonym

gamma-delta T cell development

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'.

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