Help texturing a neuron

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I am trying to make a neuron look something like:

I am fairly new to the texturing and rendering side of blender as I mostly did models and my friends would texture them.

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this is what I have currently, but like I said I don’t really know what I’m doing.

Any help is a ppreciated.

Thanks,
Trout