VEGFC and retinopathy of prematurity: In addition, it was demonstrated that hypoxia-induced expression of VEGF-C in the retina is as potent as VEGF-A in inducing pathological retinal neovascularization in PDR and retinopathy of prematurity (Campochiaro, 2015; Singh et al., 2015; Vellanki et al., 2016).