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The process whereby a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a hair cell. The process whereby a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a limb epidermal basal cell. A epidermal basal cell cell is a cell that retains the ability to divide and proliferate throughout life to provide progenitor cells that can differentiate into more specialized cell of the limb epidermis. 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 relatively unspecialized cell in the root epidermis acquires the specialized features of a trichoblast or atrichoblast. The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the ectoderm over time, from its formation to the mature structure. In animal embryos, the ectoderm is the outer germ layer of the embryo, formed during gastrulation. The process whereby a guard mother cell acquires the specialized features of a guard 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. The process whereby a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of an epidermal cell, any of the cells making up the epidermis. Process whereby a relatively unspecialized epidermal cell acquires the specialized features of a sebaceous gland cell. Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of epidermal cell differentiation. Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of epidermal cell differentiation. The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the epidermis over time, from its formation to the mature structure. The epidermis is the outer epithelial layer of a plant or animal, it may be a single layer that produces an extracellular material (e.g. the cuticle of arthropods) or a complex stratified squamous epithelium, as in the case of many vertebrate species. The process by which a cell becomes capable of differentiating autonomously into an epidermal cell in an environment that is neutral with respect to the developmental pathway; upon specification, the cell fate can be reversed. The process whereby a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a keratinocyte. The process whose specific outcome is the progression of a tissue over time, from its formation to the mature structure. Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of epidermal cell differentiation.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: epidermal cell differentiation
Acc: GO:0009913
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The process whereby a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of an epidermal cell, any of the cells making up the epidermis.
Synonyms:
  • hypodermal cell differentiation
  • GO:0043355
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 30 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 296 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0009913 - epidermal cell differentiation (interactive image map)
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