Term Information

Accession
GO:0003347
Name
epicardial cell to mesenchymal cell transition
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
None
Alternate IDs
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Definition
A transition where an epicardial cell loses apical/basolateral polarity, severs intercellular adhesive junctions, degrades basement membrane components and becomes a migratory mesenchymal cell. The epicardium is a part of the pericardium. Source: GOC:dph, PMID:18722343
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0003347 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of epicardial cell to mesenchymal cell transition (GO:0003347)
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epicardial cell to mesenchymal cell transition [is_a relation] is_a  epithelial to mesenchymal transition (GO:0001837)

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