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GO: Biological Process

plasmatocyte differentiation

Term ID
GO:0042387
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Definition
The process in which a hemocyte precursor cell acquires the characteristics of the phagocytic blood-cell type, the plasmatocyte. Plasmatocytes are a class of arthropod hemocytes important in the cellular defense response. (2)
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