epicardial cell to mesenchymal cell transition

id: GO:0003347
name: epicardial cell to mesenchymal cell transition
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: 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.

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