Reading the full text of the 180 articles remaining which reported the efficacy of SBP in animal models of myocardial infarction OR myocardial ischemia, 20 studies were excluded because the outcome measure was not myocardial infarction area or VEGF or MVC; 76 studies were excluded without SBP; 21 were excluded because of inappropriate outcome indicators; 38 studies were removed due to the deficiency of useful data. Here, VEGFA is linked to myocardial infarction.