Term Name: leukocyte differentiation
Synonyms: immune cell differentiation, leucocyte differentiation
Definition: The process in which a relatively unspecialized hemopoietic precursor cell acquires the specialized features of a leukocyte. A leukocyte is an achromatic cell of the myeloid or lymphoid lineages capable of ameboid movement, found in blood or other tissue.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0002521]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is part of: hemopoiesis
is a type of: cell differentiation
has subtype: mononuclear cell differentiation myeloid leukocyte differentiation
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of leukocyte differentiation
positively regulated by: positive regulation of leukocyte differentiation
regulated by: regulation of leukocyte differentiation