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The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the heart over time, from its formation to the mature structure. The heart is a hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. The process whereby a relatively unspecialized cell acquires the specialized structural and/or functional features of a cell that will form part of the cardiac organ of an individual. The process whereby a relatively unspecialized mesodermal cell acquires the specialized features of a pericardial cell. In insects, pericardial cells are loosely arranged non-myogenic cells that flank the cardioblasts and probably act in the filtration of hemolymph. 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.

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GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: pericardial cell differentiation
Acc: GO:0007513
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The process whereby a relatively unspecialized mesodermal cell acquires the specialized features of a pericardial cell. In insects, pericardial cells are loosely arranged non-myogenic cells that flank the cardioblasts and probably act in the filtration of hemolymph.
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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0007513 - pericardial cell differentiation (interactive image map)
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