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brown fat cell differentiation

Term Information

Accession
GO:0050873
Name
brown fat cell differentiation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
brown adipocyte cell differentiation, brown adipocyte differentiation
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a brown adipocyte, an animal connective tissue cell involved in adaptive thermogenesis. Brown adipocytes contain multiple small droplets of triglycerides and a high number of mitochondria. Source: PMID:12588810
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0050873 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of brown fat cell differentiation (GO:0050873)
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brown fat cell differentiation [is_a relation] is_a  fat cell differentiation (GO:0045444)
Children of brown fat cell differentiation (GO:0050873)
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negative regulation of brown fat cell differentiation (GO:1903444) [RO:0002212 relation] RO:0002212  brown fat cell differentiation
positive regulation of brown fat cell differentiation (GO:0090336) [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  brown fat cell differentiation
regulation of brown fat cell differentiation (GO:0090335) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  brown fat cell differentiation
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