part of ends during starts during death neuron mitral cell xenopus_anatomy CL:1001502 XAO:0004573 Large glutaminergic nerve cell whose dendrites synapse with axons of the olfactory receptor neurons in the glomerular layer of the olfactory bulb, and whose axons pass centrally in the olfactory tract to the olfactory cortex. mitral cell layer of the olfactory bulb NF stage 26