| Term: | muscle pioneer skeletal muscle cell differentiation |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | muscle pioneer |
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| Synonyms: | muscle pioneers, non migratory adaxial cells |
| Definition: | Cells that develop from adaxial cells that express engrailed and do not migrate completely to the lateral surface of the myotome, and instead extend from the notochord to the lateral surface of the somite, at the level of the future horizontal myoseptum. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0001086] |
| Name: | skeletal muscle cell differentiation |
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| Definition: | The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a skeletal muscle cell, a somatic cell located in skeletal muscle. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0035914] QuickGO AmiGO |