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astrocyte differentiation +   
The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires the specialized features of an astrocyte. An astrocyte is the most abundant type of glial cell. Astrocytes provide support for neurons and regulate the environment in which they function.
brain development +   
cardiac glial cell differentiation +  
central nervous system maturation +   
central nervous system morphogenesis +   
central nervous system neuron differentiation +   
central nervous system segmentation +   
establishment of blood-brain barrier +   
glial cell development +   
glial cell differentiation involved in amphid sensory organ development 
glial cell fate commitment +   
larval central nervous system remodeling 
lateral line nerve glial cell differentiation +  
microglia differentiation +   
negative regulation of glial cell differentiation +   
oligodendrocyte differentiation +   
positive regulation of glial cell differentiation +   
preganglionic parasympathetic fiber development +   
radial glial cell differentiation +   
regulation of glial cell differentiation +   
Schwann cell differentiation +   
spinal cord development +   
ventral cord development 
ventral midline development +   
vertebrate eye-specific patterning  

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Definition Sources: GOC:vp, PMID:15139015

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