The process in which a naive natural killer cell acquires the specialized features of an effector natural killer T cell as part of an immune response.
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'.
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NK cell differentiation during immune response; natural killer cell development involved in immune response; natural killer cell differentiation during immune response