Girven, M, Dugdale, HF, Owens, DJ, Hughes, DC, Stewart, CE and Sharples, AP L-glutamine improves skeletal muscle cell differentiation and prevents myotube atrophy after cytokine (TNF-α) stress via reduced p38 MAPK signal transduction http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/3305/ Article LJMU has developed LJMU Research Online for users to access the research output of the University more effectively. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LJMU Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain.The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of the record. Please see the repository URL above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. 32Tumour Necrosis Factor-Alpha (TNF-α) is chronically elevated in conditions where skeletal muscle loss occurs. 33As L-glutamine can dampen the effects of inflamed environments, we investigated the role of L-glutamine in