somatotropin secreting cell differentiation
The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized structural and/or functional features of a somatotropin secreting cell. A somatotropin secreting cell is an acidophilic cell of the anterior pituitary that produces growth hormone, somatotropin. [ GOC:dph ]
Synonyms: somatotrophin secreting cell differentiation, growth hormone secreting cell differentiation
Term info
somatotroph differentiation, somatotropic cell differentiation, somatotrope differentiation, somatrophic cell differentiation
biological_process
GO:0060126
Term relations
- cell differentiation
- results in acquisition of features of some somatotropin secreting cell
- part of some adenohypophysis development