VEGFA and diabetes mellitus: Vascular leakage was also decreased in eyes receiving intravitreal injection of rAAV-angiostatin compared to the contralateral eyes receiving rAAV-lacZ injection at 5, 10, and 15 days after induction of diabetes.These results are consistent with previous reports that angiostatin reduces the vascular leakage via blockade of VEGF [13-15,39,40].