natural killer cell differentiation involved in immune response
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0002325
The process in which a naive natural killer cell acquires the specialized features of an effector natural killer T cell as part of an immune response. [ GOC:add http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11698225 ]
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'.
natural killer cell development involved in immune response, NK cell differentiation during immune response, natural killer cell differentiation during immune response
biological_process
GO:0002325