Term Name: lens fiber cell differentiation
Synonyms: lens fibre cell differentiation
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.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0070306]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is part of: lens development in camera-type eye
has parts: lens fiber cell development lens fiber cell fate commitment
is a type of: epithelial cell differentiation
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of lens fiber cell differentiation
positively regulated by: positive regulation of lens fiber cell differentiation
regulated by: regulation of lens fiber cell differentiation