| Name | CD8-positive, alpha-beta T cell differentiation |
| ID | GO_0043374 |
| collection_id | Biological process |
| Exact synonym | CD8-positive, alpha-beta T lymphocyte differentiation, CD8-positive, alpha-beta T-cell differentiation, CD8-positive, alpha-beta T-lymphocyte differentiation |
| Description | The process in which a relatively unspecialized T cell acquires specialized features of a mature CD8-positive, alpha-beta T cell. |
| Related synonym | CD8-positive, alpha-beta 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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