larval PDM descending neuron [FBbt_00049518]

larval PDM descending neuron

ID: FBbt_00049518

Larval descending neuron with its soma in a posterior dorsal medial position in the brain (Tastekin et al., 2018). Its dendritic arborizations are found around the contralateral mushroom body pedunculus (Tastekin et al., 2018). It descends on the contralateral side and has large axonal varicosities in the subesophageal zone and the thoracic neuromeres and an axon reaches the fourth abdominal neuromere (Tastekin et al., 2018). It receives olfactory input from a set of lateral horn interneurons and provides outputs to a set of interneurons in the SEZ (Tastekin et al., 2018). It is involved in reorientation maneuvers during chemotaxis (Tastekin et al., 2018). There is one of these neurons per hemisphere and it is cholinergic (Tastekin et al., 2018).