Tumor necrosis factor , TNF, is a kind of cytokine related to inflammation .The genome PCRs were per-formed to identify the genotypes of Maml 1-knock-out and MAML1-transgenic mice .The cellular anti-starvation abil-ity was detected by removing serum and adding TNF-α, and myotube formation ability was detected by exchanging with differentiation medium and adding TNF or staurosporine .The results indicate that TNF-αhelps murine skeletal muscle myoblasts the ability of anti-starvation and promotes their differentiation to form more myotubes and ...