pancreatic A cell differentiation
The process in which relatively unspecialized cells acquire specialized structural and functional features of a pancreatic A cell. A pancreatic A cell is a cell in the pancreas that secretes glucagon. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11076772 GOC:dph ]
Synonyms: pancreatic alpha cell differentiation
Term info
dph
2009-10-26T09:28:05Z
biological_process
GO:0003310