natural killer cell differentiation involved in immune response
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The process in which a naive natural killer cell acquires the specialized features of an effector natural killer T cell as part of an immune response. [ GOC:add http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11698225 ]
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'.
natural killer cell development involved in immune response
NK cell differentiation during immune response
natural killer cell differentiation during immune response
Term relations
- natural killer cell differentiation
- natural killer cell activation involved in immune response
- part of some immune response