has characteristic fasciculates with overlaps capable of part of receives synaptic input in region sends synaptic output to region adult labial nerve adult ventral nerve cord hypocerebral ganglion gustatory system neuron adult gnathal ganglion prow flange descending neuron of the gnathal ganglion descending neuron of the gnathal ganglion DNg28 2018-09-20T12:00:00Z Serotonergic descending neuron belonging to the DNg group, having a large cell body in the SE1 cluster, in the lateral part of the cell body rind around the gnathal ganglion (Alekseyenko et al., 2010; Namiki et al., 2018; Yao and Scott, 2022). It has dendrites in the flange, prow and gnathal ganglion (Namiki et al., 2018; Yao and Scott, 2022) and it responds to bitter taste stimuli from the proboscis and legs (Yao and Scott, 2022). This neuron does not cross the midline and it sends an axonal projection via the ipsilateral side of the cervical connective to the ventral nerve cord (Namiki et al., 2018; Yao and Scott, 2022). It also sends projections into the labial nerve and to the hypocerebral ganglion, via the recurrent nerve (Yao and Scott, 2022). It activates enteric neurons that express serotonin receptors and can stimulate crop contraction (Yao and Scott, 2022). There are two of these cells per hemisphere (Alekseyenko et al., 2010; Namiki et al., 2018; Yao and Scott, 2022). DNg28 adult serotonergic bitter-SEL descending neuron DNg28 FBbt:00047620 VFB:FBbt_00047620 fly_anatomy.ontology bitter-SEL adult efferent neuron adult recurrent nerve adult serotonergic SE1 neuron digestive system process sensory perception of bitter taste unilateral