MIAT and ischemic stroke: Previous studies demonstrated that MIAT was highly expressed in cardiomyocytes, and involved in MI (Qu X. et al., 2017), diabetic cardiomyopathy (Zhou et al., 2017), ischemic stroke (Zhu et al., 2017), angiogenesis (Yan et al., 2015; Jiang et al., 2016).