| Term: | cardiac muscle cell cell dedifferentiation |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | cardiac muscle cell |
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| Synonyms: | cardiac muscle cells, cardiac myocyte, cardiomyocyte |
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| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0009316] |
| Name: | cell dedifferentiation |
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| Definition: | The process in which a specialized cell loses the structural or functional features that characterize it in the mature organism, or some other relatively stable phase of the organism's life history. Under certain conditions, these cells can revert back to the features of the stem cells that were their ancestors. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0043697] QuickGO AmiGO |