Term: anterior pancreatic bud type B pancreatic cell differentiation
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Name: anterior pancreatic bud
Synonyms: exocrine anlage, rostral anlage, ventral anterior bud, ventral pancreatic anlage
Definition: Pancreatic bud that develops from a ridge on the ventral side of the intestinal bulb primordium.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0001369]
Name: type B pancreatic cell differentiation
Synonyms: pancreatic B cell differentiation, pancreatic beta cell differentiation
Definition: The process in which relatively unspecialized cells acquire specialized structural and/or functional features of a type B pancreatic cell. A type B pancreatic cell is a cell located towards center of the islets of Langerhans that secretes insulin.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0003309]    QuickGO    AmiGO