endocardial cushion to mesenchymal transition involved in cardiac skeleton development

id: GO:0003202
name: endocardial cushion to mesenchymal transition involved in cardiac skeleton development
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A transition where an endocardial cushion cell loses apical/basolateral polarity, severs intercellular adhesive junctions, degrades basement membrane components and becomes a migratory mesenchymal cell that will give rise to the cardiac skeleton.

Parent Functions