has characteristic capable of part of receives synaptic input in region receives synaptic input from neuron sends synaptic output to cell primary neuron larval pair1 neuron larval descending neuron to VNC larval PDM descending neuron 2020-05-26T12:48:03Z https://github.com/FlyBase/drosophila-anatomy-developmental-ontology/issues/1521 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). VFB:FBbt_00049518 larval PDM-DN larval posterior dorsal medial descending neuron fly_anatomy.ontology larval lateral horn local interneuron 1 larval lateral horn local interneuron 2 larval SEZ descending neuron 2 larval lateral horn neuron larval cholinergic neuron embryonic/larval lateral horn chemosensory behavior bilateral