VEGFA and spinocerebellar ataxia type 1: More recently, a study from Hu et al. showed that a synthetic, amphiphilic VEGF-mimicking peptide (synthetic VEGF mimetic peptide in which a 15-amino acid VEGF sequence (KLTWQELYQLKYKGI) is covalently linked to an amphiphilic peptide) able to self-assemble into nanoparticles (≈10 nm) could be a viable therapy to improve function in SCA1 [77,78].