英语翻译

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英语翻译
Furthermore,these agents also alter the release of a variety of neurotransmitters that have important trophic functions during brain development,thus disrupting the differentiation and phenotypic fate of their target cells.
在这句话中phenotypic fate怎么理解,怎么翻译啊?

表型
英汉遗传学名词
fate
1.命运
2.发育过程中,细胞将分化成的细胞类型.
所以phenotypic fate应该翻作表型