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Neurons are made up of three major parts: a cell body, or soma The part of the neuron that contains the nucleus of the cell and that keeps the cell alive., which contains the nucleus of the cell and keeps the cell alive; a branching tree like fiber known as the dendrite, which collects information from other cells and sends the information to the soma; and a long, segmented fiber known as the axon, which transmits information away from the cell body toward other neurons or to the muscles and glands.