plasma cell differentiation

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0002317

The process in which a B cell acquires the specialized features of a plasma cell. A plasma cell is a lymphocyte which develops from a B cell and produces high amounts of antibody. [ GOC:jal ]

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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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plasma cell development

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biological_process

GO:0002317