The process in which relatively unspecialized cells acquire specialized structural and/or functional features that characterize the glomerular mesangial cells of the kidney as it progresses from its formation to the mature state.
glomerular mesangial cell proliferation +
mesangial cell development +
mesangial cell fate commitment +
mesenchymal to epithelial transition involved in mesonephros morphogenesis +
mesenchymal to epithelial transition involved in metanephros morphogenesis +
mesenchymal to epithelial transition involved in renal vesicle formation +
mesonephric glomerular mesangium development +
mesonephric mesangial cell differentiation +
metanephric glomerular mesangium development +
metanephric mesangial cell differentiation +
negative regulation of epithelial cell differentiation involved in kidney development +
nephron tubule epithelial cell differentiation +
positive regulation of epithelial cell differentiation involved in kidney development +
regulation of epithelial cell differentiation involved in kidney development +