IL10 and myocardial infarction: IL-10, which is a powerful anti-inflammatory cytokine, reduces the extent of hypertrophy in response to pressure overload and angiotensin II (Verma et al., 2012; Kishore et al., 2015), improves cardiac function and inhibits adverse remodeling post-myocardial infarction (Stumpf et al., 2008; Krishnamurthy et al., 2009; Jung et al., 2017).