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somatotropin secreting cell differentiation |
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- growth hormone secreting cell differentiation
- somatotrope differentiation
- somatotroph differentiation
- somatotrophin secreting cell differentiation
- somatotropic cell differentiation
- somatrophic cell differentiation
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Definition: |
The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized structural and/or functional features of a somatotropin secreting cell. A somatotropin secreting cell is an acidophilic cell of the anterior pituitary that produces growth hormone, somatotropin.
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