cardiac epithelial to mesenchymal transition

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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 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16314491 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1996351 GOC:dph ]

Synonyms: heart epithelial to mesenchymal transition