VEGFA and Miyoshi myopathy: Pappa et al. [79,80,81] showed that bone marrow mast cells density correlated with the clinical stage of MM and decreased after treatment; moreover, they quantified mast cells in bone marrow biopsies of MM patients and correlated with serum concentrations of VEGF, growth-regulated oncogene (GRO)-α, epithelial-derived neutrophil-activating peptide (ENA)-78.