Abstract: @@ Accumulating evidence indicates that inflammation plays an important role in cardiac repairing and remodeling after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), process of which is mediated by a cytokine reaction cascade.1 Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a cytokine, which belongs to the family of haemopoietic cell colony-stimulating factor and regulates the proliferation and differentiation of myeloid progenitor cells.