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Term Information

Accession
GO:0002317
Name
plasma cell differentiation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
plasma cell development
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The process in which a B cell acquires the specialized features of a plasma cell. A plasma cell is a lymphocyte which develops from a B cell and produces high amounts of antibody. Source: GOC:jal
Comment
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'.
History
See term history for GO:0002317 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of plasma cell differentiation (GO:0002317)
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plasma cell differentiation [is_a relation] is_a  mature B cell differentiation involved in immune response (GO:0002313)
Children of plasma cell differentiation (GO:0002317)
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regulation of plasma cell differentiation (GO:1900098) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  plasma cell differentiation
negative regulation of plasma cell differentiation (GO:1900099) [RO:0002212 relation] RO:0002212  plasma cell differentiation
positive regulation of plasma cell differentiation (GO:1900100) [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  plasma cell differentiation
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