pars intercerebralis [FBbt_00005802]

pars intercerebralis

ID: FBbt_00005802

Cell body rind region that lies in a medial cleft dividing the left and right superior protocerebrum, anterior to the calyces of the mushroom bodies and dorsal to the central complex. It contains numerous large and small somata of neurosecretory and neuromodulatory neurons. In the larva, these neurons are split into bilaterally symmetric clusters on either side of the medial cleft whereas in the adult they are one unpaired cluster (Siegmund and Korge, 2001, Velasco et al., 2007).

Ito et al. (2014) may further subdivide cortex/rind regions into multiple facets. Subdivisions should be denoted by the addition of a single letter body-axis direction, e.g. rLHa for anterior to the lateral horn; rSMPm for medial to the superior medial protocerebrum, etc.