has soma location receives synaptic input in region sends synaptic output to region receives synaptic input from neuron sends synaptic output to cell neuronal receptor cell sensory epithelial cell chemoreceptor cell adult pars intercerebralis chemosensory neuron adult gut prow Dh44 neuron adult Dh44 neuron of pars intercerebralis adult m-NSC DH44 fly_anatomy.ontology VFB:FBbt_00047127 Diuretic hormone 44 (DH44)-expressing neuron of the adult having a cell body in the pars intercerebralis. There are three of these cells per hemisphere and they all coexpress leucokinin receptor (Cannell et al., 2016). These DH44 neurons synapse with Hugin neurons in the pars intercerebralis, the subesophageal zone and along the midline of the brain between these regions (King et al., 2017). Their subesophageal arborization is predominantly in the prow (Lee et al., 2015). It exits the brain via the nervus corporis cardiaci (McKim et al., 2024) and axons project to the foregut, anterior midgut and crop (Dus et al., 2015). It can be directly activated by the presence of nutritive sugars (Dus et al., 2015) or a small subset of amino acids (Yang et al., 2018) in the hemolymph. adult DH44 PI neuron adult DH44+ PI neuron FBbt:00047127 Synapsing data shown by GRASP (King et al., 2017). Dh44 neuron of pars intercerebralis adult neurosecretory cell of pars intercerebralis adult Dh44 neuron of brain adult gut-innervating neuron adult sensory neuron adult ring gland projection neuron adult Hugin neuron