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Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of osteoblast differentiation. 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 bone over time, from its formation to the mature structure. Bone is the hard skeletal connective tissue consisting of both mineral and cellular components. Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of osteoblast differentiation. Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of osteoblast differentiation. The process whose specific outcome is the progression of an osteoblast over time, from its formation to the mature structure. Osteoblast development does not include the steps involved in committing a cranial neural crest cell or an osteoprogenitor cell to an osteoblast fate. An osteoblast is a cell that gives rise to bone. The formation of bone or of a bony substance, or the conversion of fibrous tissue or of cartilage into bone or a bony substance. The commitment of mesenchymal cells to the specific cell fate of an osteoblast. An osteoblast is a bone-forming cell which secretes an extracellular matrix. Hydroxyapatite crystals are then deposited into the matrix to form bone. 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 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. The process whereby a relatively unspecialized cell acquires the specialized features of an osteoblast, the mesodermal cell that gives rise to bone.

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GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: osteoblast differentiation
Acc: GO:0001649
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The process whereby a relatively unspecialized cell acquires the specialized features of an osteoblast, the mesodermal cell that gives rise to bone.
Synonyms:
  • osteoblast cell differentiation
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
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   Term or descendants: 146 [Search]


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GO:0001649 - osteoblast differentiation (interactive image map)
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