VEGFA and Alzheimer disease: Interestingly, the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which is known to display both a vascular and neuronal function (Lange et al., 2016), accumulates in Aβ plaques in the brains of AD patients and mouse models of the disease (Yang et al., 2004; Ryu et al., 2009; Martin et al., 2021).