VEGFA and atherosclerosis: Endothelial damage and atherosclerosis: nilotinib was demonstrated to inhibit human vascular endothelial and microvascular endothelial cell proliferation and survival, both in presence and absence of VEGF, and determining an increase of caspase-3 and -7 (markers of apoptosis), determining damage that partially resumes the one known to be caused by VEGF-inhibiting TKIs (Galvano et al., 2019).