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thyroid-stimulating hormone-secreting cell differentiation |
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- beta-basophil differentiation
- thyroid stimulating hormone secreting cell differentiation
- thyrotrope differentiation
- thyrotroph differentiation
- TSH-secreting cell differentiation
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Definition: |
The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized structural and/or functional features of a thyroid-stimulating hormone-secreting cell. A thyroid-stimulating hormone-secreting cell is a basophil cell of the anterior pituitary that produces thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyrotrophin.
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