Often referred to as a blast cell. Unlike other usages of the suffix -blast a lymphoblast is a further differentiation of a lymphocyte, T- or B-, occasioned by an antigenic stimulus. The lymphoblast usually develops by enlargement of a lymphocyte, active re-entry to the S phase of the cell cycle, mitogenesis and production of much m-RNA and ribosomes. (BRENDA Tissue and Enzyme Source Ontology, BTO_0000772)
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15 genes co-occuring with the biological term lymphoblast in literature-supported statements describing functions of genes from the GeneRIF Biological Term Annotations dataset.