Term Name: cardiocyte differentiation
Synonyms: cardiac cell differentiation, heart cell differentiation
Definition: The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires the specialized structural and/or functional features of a cell that will form part of the cardiac organ of an individual.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0035051]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is part of: heart development
has parts: cardiac cell development cardiac cell fate commitment
is a type of: cell differentiation
has subtype: cardiac endothelial cell differentiation cardiac fibroblast cell differentiation cardiac glial cell differentiation cardiac muscle cell differentiation cardiac neural crest cell differentiation involved in heart development cardiac neuron differentiation cardiac septum cell differentiation cardiac vascular smooth muscle cell differentiation cardioblast differentiation endocardial cushion cell differentiation heart valve cell differentiation
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of cardiocyte differentiation
positively regulated by: positive regulation of cardiocyte differentiation
regulated by: regulation of cardiocyte differentiation