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Term Name | brown fat cell differentiation |
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Term Accession | GO:0050873 |
Aspect | biological_process |
Synonyms (2) | brown adipocyte cell differentiation, brown adipocyte differentiation |
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. |
Comment | None |
Source Ontology Database | The GO browser of Gene Ontology Database |
PMID: | 12588810 |