The process in which relatively unspecialized cells acquire specialized structural and functional features that characterize a pancreatic delta cell. A delta cell is a cell of the pancreas that produces somatostatin. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11076772 GOC:dph ]
Synonyms: pancreatic delta cell differentiation
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- cell differentiation
- enteroendocrine cell differentiation
- results in acquisition of features of some pancreatic D cell
- part of some endocrine pancreas development