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It makes the inside of the neurons more negative.


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The cell that is insulated by a fatty layer is the myelin sheath. It is the fatty insulator around the neurons (nerve).


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How do you create myelenated neurons?

You don't, but glial cells, (oligodendrocytes in the CNS, and Schwann cells in the PNS), wrapped one after another around the axons of neurons with gaps between them called the nodes of Ravnier do create myelinated neurons.