endocardial cushion to mesenchymal transition involved in heart chamber septation

id: GO:0003200
name: endocardial cushion to mesenchymal transition involved in heart chamber septation
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A transition where an endocardial cell loses apical/basolateral polarity, severs intercellular adhesive junctions, degrades basement membrane components and becomes a migratory mesenchymal cell that will contribute to the formation of the heart septum.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0060317cardiac epithelial to mesenchymal transition