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Category:GO:0070306 ! lens fiber cell differentiation
name: lens fiber cell differentiation
namespace: biological_process
def: "The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a lens fiber cell, any of the elongated, tightly packed cells that make up the bulk of the mature lens in the camera-type eye. The cytoplasm of a lens fiber cell is devoid of most intracellular organelles including the cell nucleus, and contains primarily crystallins, a group of water-soluble proteins expressed in vary large quantities." [GOC:mah, PMID:7693735]
synonym: "lens fibre cell differentiation" EXACT [GOC:mah]
is_a: GO:0030855 ! epithelial cell differentiation
relationship: part_of: GO:0002088 ! lens development in camera-type eye
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<GOterm>GO:0070306</GOterm>
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