AGT and myocardial infarction: Furthermore, Zhao et al. reported that Mas receptor antagonist A779 significantly reduced cardiac expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and decreased angiogenesis in the infarcted myocardium of a rat model, suggesting that angiotensin-(1-7) may promote cardiac angiogenesis during the healing of myocardial infarction (Zhao et al., 2015).