The process in which a B cell in the spleen acquires the specialized features of a follicular B cell. Follicular B cells are major population of mature recirculating B cells in the spleen and are located in the B-cell follicle region. [ GOC:jal https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0781735149 ]
Synonyms: follicular B lymphocyte differentiation follicular B-lymphocyte differentiation follicular B-cell differentiation
Term information
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'.