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SUBMITTER: Lacin H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6504232 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lacin Haluk H Chen Hui-Min HM Long Xi X Singer Robert H RH Lee Tzumin T Truman James W JW
eLife 20190326
The vast majority of the adult fly ventral nerve cord is composed of 34 hemilineages, which are clusters of lineally related neurons. Neurons in these hemilineages use one of the three fast-acting neurotransmitters (acetylcholine, GABA, or glutamate) for communication. We generated a comprehensive neurotransmitter usage map for the entire ventral nerve cord. We did not find any cases of neurons using more than one neurotransmitter, but found that the acetylcholine specific gene ChAT is transcrib ...[more]