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Category:GO:0002314 ! germinal center B cell differentiation
name: germinal center B cell differentiation
namespace: biological_process
def: "The process in which a B cell in the spleen acquires the specialized features of a germinal center B cell. Germinal center B cells are rapidly cycling B cells which have downregulated IgD expression and exhibit high levels of binding by peanut agglutinin (PNA)." [GOC:jal, ISBN:0781735149]
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'.
synonym: "germinal center B cell development" RELATED [GOC:add]
synonym: "germinal center B lymphocyte differentiation" EXACT []
synonym: "germinal center B-cell differentiation" EXACT []
synonym: "germinal center B-lymphocyte differentiation" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0002313 ! mature B cell differentiation involved in immune response
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<GOterm>GO:0002314</GOterm>
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