has soma location has synaptic IO in region sends synaptic output to cell A1-7 segment border muscle cell larval ventral nerve cord abdominal neuron larval abdominal ganglion Leucokinin neuron 2011-12-08T02:39:29Z FBbt:00110053 larval Leucokinin ABLK neuron of the abdominal ganglion Larval neuron that expresses Leucokinin (FBgn0028418) whose cell body is located ventrolaterally in each neuromere of the abdominal ganglion. Each neuron produces a pair of axons, one of which projects dorsally and emerges from the ventral ganglia through an anterior segmental nerve of each hemineuromere. The other branch divides centrally into two branches: one send its neurites to the anterior ABLK and the other ventrally to the posterior ABLK. From each segmental nerve one axon emerges that synapses to the adjacent segment border muscle, close to the spiracle (Haro et al., 2010; Landgraf et al., 2003). These synapses lack the typical morphology of motor-neuron synapses (Landgraf et al., 2003) and are not glutamatergic (Haro et al., 2010). There is one pair of neurons in each of seven abdominal neuromeres (de Haro et al., 2010). LK-immunoreactive cell VFB:FBbt_00110053 fly_anatomy.ontology The more anterior ABLK neurons are connected to the leucokinin SELK neuron of the subesophageal ganglion in the dorsal-medial tract (de Haro et al., 2010). Landgraf et al. (2003), also detected leucokinin positive terminals on A1-7 ventral longitudinal (VL) muscles. It is not clear where these neuron originate from. larval ABLK neuron larval Leucokinin neuron of the central nervous system cell body rind of larval abdominal neuromere