epithelial to mesenchymal transition involved in cardiac fibroblast development
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.
GO:0060317
cardiac epithelial to mesenchymal transition
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GO:0060939
epicardium-derived cardiac fibroblast cell development
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