VEGFA and diabetic retinopathy: Among these increased VEGF (Maisto et al., 2019) and decrease of related inhibitory miRNAs are demonstrated to result in cells damage and modified angiogenesis in diabetic retinopathy (He and King, 2004; Kowluru and Chan, 2007; Patel and Santani, 2009; Kitada et al., 2010; Szade et al., 2015; Suryavanshi and Kulkarni, 2017; Yin et al., 2017; Platania et al., 2019).