epithelial to mesenchymal transition involved in cardiac fibroblast development

id: GO:0060940
name: epithelial to mesenchymal transition involved in cardiac fibroblast development
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 that will mature into a cardiac fibroblast.

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