VEGFA and brain infarction: The neuroprotective effects of VEGFA include reducing the degree of ischemic brain injury, reducing the death of nerve cells in the damaged brain, narrowing the foci of cerebral infarction, etc. In addition, in the case of brain injury, VEGFA promotes the transformation of glial cells into neurons, and functions as an important regulatory protein in the structural and functional remodeling of neurovascular units [56,57].