epithelial cell differentiation
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0030855
The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of an epithelial cell, any of the cells making up an epithelium. [ GOC:ecd http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11839751 ]
Term info
biological_process
GO:0030855
Term relations
- cell differentiation
- part of some epithelium development
- results in acquisition of features of some epithelial cell