NTR: inferior cardiac neuron (IC)

[andreagaede]

Preferred term label:
inferior cardiac neuron

Synonyms
IC

Definition (free text, please give PubMed ID)
Control of ventral stomach grooves leading to pyloric filter: The IC neuron innervates muscles that govern opening and closing of the ventrolateral grooves of the cardiac sac. This, in turn, means that these muscles may control the movement of liquified food to the pylorus.

Claiborne, B.J., Ayers, J. (1987). Functional Anatomy and Behavior. In: Selverston, A.I., Moulins, M. (eds) The Crustacean Stomatogastric System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71516-7_2

Parent term (use https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/uberon)
Newly created “stomatogastric ganglion” term

Your nano-attribution (ORCID)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1909-7004