ANXA3 and myocardial infarction: AnxA3 is also highly expressed in myocardial cells during acute myocardial infarction and in vivo AnxA3 inhibition using a short hairpain RNA in rats reduced infarct size, inflammatory response, α-actin, collagen type I and III by activation of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway (Meng et al., 2019).