Term Details for "foam cell differentiation" (GO:0090077) (original) (raw)

Accession

GO:0090077

Name

foam cell differentiation

Ontology

biological_process

Synonyms

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Alternate IDs

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Definition

The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires the specialized features of a foam cell. A foam cell is a type of cell containing lipids in small vacuoles and typically seen in atherosclerotic lesions, as well as other conditions.Source: GOC:dph,GOC:tb,GOC:BHF,GOC:add

Comment

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History

See term history for GO:0090077 at QuickGO

Chem. react.

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Subset

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