FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term lens fiber cell differentiation ID (Ontology) GO:0070306 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a lens fiber cell, any of the elongated, tightly packed cells that make up the bulk of the mature lens in the camera-type eye. The cytoplasm of a lens fiber cell is devoid of most intracellular organelles including the cell nucleus, and contains primarily crystallins, a group of water-soluble proteins expressed in vary large quantities.[ PubMed:7693735 ]
Also Known As "lens fibre cell differentiation"
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Is a epithelial cell differentiation
Part of lens development in camera-type eye
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