VEGFA and diabetes mellitus: Veron et al. induced diabetes in podocyte-specific conditional VEGF-A164 transgenic mice and observed massive proteinuria as well as Kimmelstiel-Wilson-like nodular glomerulosclerosis, microaneurysms, and mesangiolysis in the glomeruli of the mice [46], which was consistent with advanced diabetic glomerulopathy (Figure 1).