pancreatic D cell differentiation
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0003311
The process in which relatively unspecialized cells acquire specialized structural and functional features that characterize a pancreatic delta cell. A delta cell is a cell of the pancreas that produces somatostatin. [ GOC:dph http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11076772 ]
Synonyms: pancreatic delta cell differentiation
Term info
dph
2009-10-26T09:30:27Z
biological_process
GO:0003311
Term relations
- enteroendocrine cell differentiation
- results in acquisition of features of some pancreatic D cell
- part of some endocrine pancreas development