MLV outgrowth after stroke injury also correlated with a surge of cortical Vegfc expression, which confirms previous reports of upregulated VEGF-C protein expression in brain cells after ischemia, either within 24 h after focal photo-thrombosis (Jiang and Liao, 2010) or 72 h after 5 min ischemia (Bhuiyan et al., 2015). Here, VEGFC is linked to Stroke.