somatotropin secreting cell differentiation
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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. [ GOC:dph ]
Synonyms: somatotrophin secreting cell differentiation growth hormone secreting cell differentiation
Term information
somatotropic cell differentiation
somatotroph differentiation
somatotrope differentiation
somatrophic cell differentiation
Term relations
- cell differentiation
- results in acquisition of features of some somatotropin secreting cell
- part of some adenohypophysis development