Gene ontology ID
GO:0045066
Definition
The process in which a relatively unspecialized T cell acquires specialized features of a regulatory T cell. Regulatory T cells control or suppress immune responses through a variety of mechanisms and subsets include the CD4+CD25+ cell type as well as certain CD8+ cell types
Comment
Note that immunologists typically use the word 'development' to refer to cells of B or T cell lineages undergoing the process that GO describes as 'cell differentiation'.
Synonyms
1. regulatory T cell development
2. regulatory T lymphocyte differentiation
3. regulatory T-cell differentiation
4. regulatory T-lymphocyte differentiation
5. suppressor T cell differentiation
6. suppressor T lymphocyte differentiation
7. suppressor T-cell differentiation
8. suppressor T-lymphocyte differentiation
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