medial-most cell body glial cell [FBbt_00001299]

medial-most cell body glial cell

ID: FBbt_00001299

Cell body glial cell that lies close to the midline of the embryonic/larval ventral nerve cord. It lies between 10-20% along the mediolateral axis, and at approximately 50% along the anterioposterior axis, and flanks the ventral unpaired median (VUM) neuron cluster on the midline. In the early larva, each thoracic hemineuromere has two medial-most cell body glial cells, whilst each abdominal hemineuromere has one (Ito et al., 1995). It develops from the NB6-4 neuroblast (Beckervordersandforth et al., 2008).

The medial-most cell body glial cells are likely the VUM-support cells described by Klambt and Goodman (1991), and Menne and Klambt (1994) (Ito et al., 1995).