Term Name: epithelial to mesenchymal transition involved in cardiac fibroblast development
Synonyms:
Definition: 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.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0060940]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is part of: epicardium-derived cardiac fibroblast cell development
is a type of: cardiac epithelial to mesenchymal transition