A transition where a mesenchymal cell establishes apical/basolateral polarity, forms intercellular adhesive junctions, synthesizes basement membrane components and becomes an epithelial cell. [ GOC:ascb_2009 GOC:tb GOC:dph ]
Term information
A transition where a mesenchymal cell establishes apical/basolateral polarity, forms intercellular adhesive junctions, synthesizes basement membrane components and becomes an epithelial cell.
mesenchymal-epithelial transition
epithelial cell differentiation from mesenchymal cell
Term relations
- cell differentiation and results in acquisition of features of some epithelial cell and has primary input some mesenchymal cell