VEGF also has beneficial effects on the survival of newborn neuronal precursors (Widenfalk et al. 2003) and has been implicated in neurogenesis after cerebral ischemia (Jin et al. 2002; Sun et al. 2003; Wang et al. 2007) and in neurite outgrowth (Jin et al. 2006). The gene discussed is VEGFA; the disease is Cerebral ischemia.