white fat cell differentiation

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0050872

The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a white adipocyte, an animal connective tissue cell involved in energy storage. White adipocytes have cytoplasmic lipids arranged in a unique vacuole. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12508945 ]

Synonyms: white adipocyte cell differentiation, white adipocyte differentiation

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biological_process

GO:0050872

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cell differentiation and results in acquisition of features of some white fat cell

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fat cell differentiation
results in acquisition of features of some white fat cell