cell dedifferentiation

id: GO:0043697
name: cell dedifferentiation
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The process in which a specialized cell loses the structural or functional features that characterize it in the mature organism, or some other relatively stable phase of the organism's life history. Under certain conditions, these cells can revert back to the features of the stem cells that were their ancestors.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0043696dedifferentiation
GO:0048869cellular developmental process