Relacionar Columnas Component of the nerve cellVersión en línea Biology, Year 9 Science , Neuron por Rupa Oberoi 1 Axon 2 Synapse 3 Cell Body 4 Nodes of Ranvier 5 Myelin Sheath 6 Dendrites axons are covered by this fatty layer which helps to speed up a nerve impulse along an axon by controlling its path. highly sensitive, thin branches receive information and form contacts with the axons of other neurons are gaps in the myelin sheath coating on the neural axon. Carries the nerve impulse away from the cell body Region which transmits information from one neuron to another Control center of cell which maintain cell function.