cell dedifferentiation kidney cortex tubule cell dedifferentiation 2022-04-11T20:51:10Z GO:0160029 rynl biological_process Following injury, renal cortex tubular epithelial cell appears to be undergoing epithelial-mesenchymal transition, detected by overexpression of vimentin. The process in which a kidney cortex tubule cell (specialized epithelial cell of the kidney) 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.