type B pancreatic cell differentiation
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0003309
The process in which relatively unspecialized cells acquire specialized structural and/or functional features of a type B pancreatic cell. A type B pancreatic cell is a cell located towards center of the islets of Langerhans that secretes insulin. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000169 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11076772 GOC:dph ]
Synonyms: pancreatic B cell differentiation, pancreatic beta cell differentiation
Term info
dph
2009-10-26T09:27:23Z
biological_process
GO:0003309
Term relations
- enteroendocrine cell differentiation
- part of some endocrine pancreas development
- results in acquisition of features of some type B pancreatic cell