VEGFA and myocardial infarction: Cai et al. [32] demonstrated that endothelial progenitor cell proliferation mediated by VEGF and IL-8 secretion is related to cardiac shock wave therapy, and Song et al. [33] showed that VEGF, derived from transplanted bone marrow-mesenchymal stem cell, regulated the expression of miRNAs such as miRNA-23a and miRNA-92a and performed anti-apoptotic effects in cardiomyocytes after MI.