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GO: Biological Process
lens fiber cell differentiation
- Term ID
- GO:0070306
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- 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. 7693735
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