| GO term: | brown fat cell differentiation |
| Synonym: | brown adipocyte cell differentiation |
| Synonym: | brown adipocyte differentiation |
| GO id: | GO:0050873 |
| Definition: | The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a brown adipocyte, an animal connective tissue cell involved in adaptive thermogenesis. Brown adipocytes contain multiple small droplets of triglycerides and a high number of mitochondria. |
| Number of paths to term: | 3 |
denotes an 'is-a' relationship
denotes a 'part-of' relationship
denotes a 'regulates' relationship
denotes a 'positively-regulates' relationship
denotes a 'negatively-regulates' relationship
biological_processcellular processsingle-organism cellular processcellular developmental processcell differentiationfat cell differentiationbrown fat cell differentiation [GO:0050873] (30 genes, 32 annotations)positive regulation of brown fat cell differentiationregulation of brown fat cell differentiation +negative regulation of fat cell differentiationpositive regulation of fat cell differentiation +regulation of fat cell differentiation +white fat cell differentiation +biological_processdevelopmental processcellular developmental processcell differentiationfat cell differentiationbrown fat cell differentiation [GO:0050873] (30 genes, 32 annotations)positive regulation of brown fat cell differentiationregulation of brown fat cell differentiation +negative regulation of fat cell differentiationpositive regulation of fat cell differentiation +regulation of fat cell differentiation +white fat cell differentiation +biological_processsingle-organism processsingle-organism cellular processcellular developmental processcell differentiationfat cell differentiationbrown fat cell differentiation [GO:0050873] (30 genes, 32 annotations)positive regulation of brown fat cell differentiationregulation of brown fat cell differentiation +negative regulation of fat cell differentiationpositive regulation of fat cell differentiation +regulation of fat cell differentiation +white fat cell differentiation +Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB), Gene Ontology (GO), MouseCyc |
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