regulatory T cell differentiation
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0045066
The process in which a relatively unspecialized T cell acquires specialized features of a regulatory T cell. Regulatory T cells control or suppress immune responses through a variety of mechanisms and subsets include the CD4+CD25+ cell type as well as certain CD8+ cell types. [ http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0781735149&isbn=1/ ]
Synonyms: regulatory T-cell differentiation, suppressor T cell differentiation, suppressor T-lymphocyte differentiation, regulatory T-lymphocyte differentiation, suppressor T-cell differentiation, regulatory T lymphocyte differentiation, suppressor T lymphocyte differentiation
Term info
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'.
regulatory T cell development
biological_process
GO:0045066