mesenchymal to epithelial transition
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0060231
A transition where a mesenchymal cell establishes apical/basolateral polarity, forms intercellular adhesive junctions, synthesizes basement membrane components and becomes an epithelial cell. [ GOC:dph GOC:tb GOC:ascb_2009 ]
Synonyms: mesenchymal-epithelial transition, epithelial cell differentiation from mesenchymal cell
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- cell differentiation and has input some mesenchymal cell and results in acquisition of features of some epithelial cell