GO:0060317

cardiac epithelial to mesenchymal transition

Details: 
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. [GOC:BHF, GOC:dph, PMID:16314491, PMID:1996351]
Evidence Code: 
IGI