cardiac epithelial to mesenchymal transition

id: GO:0060317
name: cardiac epithelial to mesenchymal transition
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A transition where a cardiac epithelial cell loses apical/basolateral polarity, severs intercellular adhesive junctions, degrades basement membrane components and becomes a migratory mesenchymal cell.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0003198epithelial to mesenchymal transition involved in endocardial cushion formation
GO:0003199endocardial cushion to mesenchymal transition involved in heart valve formation
GO:0003200endocardial cushion to mesenchymal transition involved in heart chamber septation
GO:0003201epithelial to mesenchymal transition involved in coronary vasculature morphogenesis
GO:0003202endocardial cushion to mesenchymal transition involved in cardiac skeleton development
GO:0060940epithelial to mesenchymal transition involved in cardiac fibroblast development

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0001837epithelial to mesenchymal transition