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A biological process that directly contributes to the process of producing new individuals by one or two organisms. The new individuals inherit some proportion of their genetic material from the parent or parents. Any process that is carried out at the cellular level, but not necessarily restricted to a single cell. For example, cell communication occurs among more than one cell, but occurs at the cellular level. A process, occurring at the cellular level, that is involved in the reproductive function of a multicellular or single-celled organism. A biological process whose specific outcome is the progression of a cell over time from an initial condition to a later condition. The process whereby a subpopulation of granulosa cells surrounding the oocyte acquires the specialized features of an ovarian cumulus cell. The process whereby relatively unspecialized cells, e.g. embryonic or regenerative cells, acquire specialized structural and/or functional features that characterize the cells, tissues, or organs of the mature organism or some other relatively stable phase of the organism's life history. Differentiation includes the processes involved in commitment of a cell to a specific fate and its subsequent development to the mature state. Increase in size of antral follicles due to cell proliferation and/or growth of the antral cavity. A developmental process by which a progressive change in the state of some part of an organism specifically contributes to its ability to form offspring. A biological process whose specific outcome is the progression of an integrated living unit: an anatomical structure (which may be a subcellular structure, cell, tissue, or organ), or organism over time from an initial condition to a later condition. The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the ovarian follicle over time, from its formation to the mature structure. The stage in oogenesis when the antral spaces fuse to form a single antral space. The oocyte is suspended in the cumulus oophorous and the first polar body in the perivitelline space. The increase in size or mass of an entire organism, a part of an organism or a cell, where the increase in size or mass has the specific outcome of the progression of the organism over time from one condition to another. A reproductive process that is a step in the formation and maturation of an ovum or female gamete from a primordial female germ cell. Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of ovarian cumulus cell differentiation. Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of ovarian cumulus cell differentiation. A process involved in the sexual cycle seen in female mammals, with physiologic changes in the endometrium that recur at regular intervals during the reproductive years. Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of ovarian cumulus cell differentiation.

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GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: cumulus cell differentiation
Acc: GO:0001549
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The process whereby a subpopulation of granulosa cells surrounding the oocyte acquires the specialized features of an ovarian cumulus cell.
Synonyms:
  • ovarian cumulus cell differentiation
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0001549 - cumulus cell differentiation (interactive image map)
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