Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) and stroke

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Rat forebrain neurogenesis and striatal neuron replacement after focal stroke

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Changes in serum vascular endothelial growth factor and endostatin concentrations associated with circulating endothelial progenitor cells after acute ischemic stroke

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Cohort study on the differential expression of inflammatory and angiogenic factors in thrombi, cerebral and peripheral plasma following acute large vessel occlusion stroke

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Oncostatin M-induced upregulation of SDF-1 improves Bone marrow stromal cell migration in a rat middle cerebral artery occlusion stroke model

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Ultrasound and Biochemical Diagnostic Tools for the Characterization of Vulnerable Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque

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Exercise and Stroke

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Saponin of Aralia taibaiensis promotes angiogenesis through VEGF/VEGFR2 signaling pathway in cerebral ischemic mice

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Galectin-1 Contributes to Vascular Remodeling and Blood Flow Recovery After Cerebral Ischemia in Mice

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Targeting aging with the healthy skeletal system: The endocrine role of bone

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Network pharmacology and experimental study of phenolic acids in salvia miltiorrhiza bung in preventing ischemic stroke

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Pregnancy protects the kidney from acute ischemic injury

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Absolute blood eosinophil count could be a potential biomarker for predicting haemorrhagic transformation after intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke

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Hypertonic saline downregulates endothelial cell-derived VEGF expression and reduces blood-brain barrier permeability induced by cerebral ischaemia via the VEGFR2/eNOS pathway

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New Drug Targets to Prevent Death Due to Stroke: A Review Based on Results of Protein-Protein Interaction Network, Enrichment, and Annotation Analyses

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Prolonged release of VEGF and Ang1 from intralesionally implanted hydrogel promotes perilesional vascularization and functional recovery after experimental ischemic stroke

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Therapeutic potential of hair follicle-derived stem cell intranasal transplantation in a rat model of ischemic stroke

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Comprehensive Gene Expression Profiling Reveals Synergistic Functional Networks in Cerebral Vessels after Hypertension or Hypercholesterolemia

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Paradoxical effects of VEGF on synaptic activity partially involved in notch1 signaling in the mouse hippocampus

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Primary Blast Causes Delayed Effects without Cell Death in Shell-Encased Brain Cell Aggregates

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PTEN inhibition enhances angiogenesis in an in vitro model of ischemic injury by promoting Akt phosphorylation and subsequent hypoxia inducible factor-1α upregulation

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Pericytes Regulate Cerebral Perfusion through VEGFR1 in Ischemic Stroke

Gong, C., Zhang, Q., Xiong, X., Yuan, J., Yang, G., Huang, J., Liu, J., Duan, C., Rui-Xu, Qiu, Z., et al. (2021) · Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology · doi:10.1007/s10571-021-01071-w · Cited by 18

SALM4 regulates angiogenic functions in endothelial cells through VEGFR2 phosphorylation at Tyr1175

Kim, D. Y., Park, J. A., Kim, Y., Noh, M., Park, S., Lie, E., Kim, E., Kim, Y., & Kwon, Y. (2019) · The FASEB Journal · doi:10.1096/fj.201802516rr · Cited by 17

Permselectivity of Silk Fibroin Hydrogels for Advanced Drug Delivery Neurotherapies

Fernández-Serra, R., Lekouaghet, A., Peracho, L., Yonesi, M., Alcázar, A., Chioua, M., Marco‐Contelles, J., Pérez‐Rigueiro, J., Rojo, F. J., Panetsos, F., et al. (2024) · Biomacromolecules · doi:10.1021/acs.biomac.4c00629 · Cited by 17

Vitality‐Enhanced Dual‐Modal Tracking System Reveals the Dynamic Fate of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Stroke Therapy

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Genetics of ischemic stroke functional outcome

Carnwath, T., Demel, S. L., & Prestigiacomo, C. J. (2024) · Journal of Neurology · doi:10.1007/s00415-024-12263-x · Cited by 20

CpG Preconditioning Regulates Mirna Expression That Modulates Genomic Reprogramming Associated with Neuroprotection against Ischemic Injury

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Correlation between the changes of serum COX 2, APE1, VEGF, TGF-β and TSGF levels and prognosis in patients with osteosarcoma before and after treatment

Zhang, Q., Dong, G. L., Wang, F., & Ding, W. (2020) · Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics · doi:10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_11_20 · Cited by 17

Sitting Time, Leisure-Time Physical Activity, and Risk of Mortality Among US Stroke Survivors: A Prospective Cohort Study From the NHANES 2007 to 2018

Yu, C., Cao, Y., Liu, Q., Tan, H., Xia, G., Chen, B., Du, F., Lu, K., & Saposnik, G. (2025) · Stroke · doi:10.1161/strokeaha.124.049672 · Cited by 16

Stroke: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Signaling Pathways, and Clinical Management

Ren, H., Liu, Y., Zhao, M., Shen, H., Nie, S., Gao, X., & Huang, Y. (2025) · MedComm · doi:10.1002/mco2.70558 · Cited by 24

The experimental research on neuroplasticity in rats’ hippocampus subjected to chronic cerebral hypoperfusion and interfered by Modified Dioscorea Pills

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The potential of hydrogels as a niche for promoting neurogenesis and regulating neuroinflammation in ischemic stroke

Jiang, S., Geng, R., Wang, R., Li, X., & Bao, X. (2023) · Materials & Design · doi:10.1016/j.matdes.2023.111916 · Cited by 16

Systems-level computational modeling in ischemic stroke: from cells to patients

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Poststroke Angiogenesis, Pro

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Normobaric oxygen therapy inhibits HIF-1α and VEGF expression in perihematoma and reduces neurological function defects

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Therapeutic Potential of Pretreatment with Allograft Sertoli Cells Transplantation in Brain Ischemia by Improving Oxidative Defenses

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Regeneration-associated cell transplantation contributes to tissue recovery in mice with acute ischemic stroke

Nakayama, T., Nagata, E., Masuda, H., Asahara, T., & Takizawa, S. (2019) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0210198 · Cited by 16

Gualou Guizhi decoction promotes therapeutic angiogenesis via the miR210/HIF/VEGF pathway in vivo and in vitro

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The use of aliskiren as an antifibrotic drug in experimental models: A systematic review

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Whole blood transcript and protein abundance of the vascular endothelial growth factor family relate to cognitive performance

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Towards a multi protein and mRNA expression of biological predictive and distinguish model for post stroke depression

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Dysregulation of circulating autoantibodies against VEGF-A, VEGFR-1 and PlGF in preeclampsia – A role in placental and vascular health?

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Cathepsin K Knockout Exacerbates Haemorrhagic Transformation Induced by Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator After Focal Cerebral Ischaemia in Mice

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Serum Levels of VEGF-A and Its Receptors in Patients in Different Phases of Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Strokes

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Association of ten VEGF family genes with Alzheimer's disease endophenotypes at single cell resolution

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Anti‐diabetic and neuroprotective effects of pancreatic islet transplantation into the central nervous system

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Age-dependent expression of VEGFR2 in deep brain arteries in small vessel disease, CADASIL, and healthy brains

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The power of VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) family molecules

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Influencing neuroplasticity in stroke treatment with advanced biomaterials-based approaches

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Blood markers in remote ischaemic conditioning for acute ischaemic stroke: data from the REmote ischaemic Conditioning After Stroke Trial

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Impacts of N-Butylphthalide on expression of growth factors in rats with focal cerebral ischemia

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Glutamate Neonatal Excitotoxicity Modifies VEGF-A, VEGF-B, VEGFR-1 and VEGFR-2 Protein Expression Profiles During Postnatal Development of the Cerebral Cortex and Hippocampus of Male Rats

Castañeda‐Cabral, J. L., Beas‐Zárate, C., Gudiño‐Cabrera, G., & Ureña‐Guerrero, M. E. (2017) · Journal of Molecular Neuroscience · doi:10.1007/s12031-017-0952-7 · Cited by 13

Differential Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A165 Isoforms Between Intracranial Atherosclerosis and Moyamoya Disease

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Hypoxic Conditioned Medium from Rat Cerebral Cortical Cells Enhances the Proliferation and Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells Mainly through PI3-K/Akt Pathways

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Stroke studies in large animals: Prospects of mitochondrial transplantation and enhancing efficiency using hydrogels and nanoparticle-assisted delivery

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Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells derived cytokines associated with AKT/IAPs signaling ameliorate Alzheimer’s disease development

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Exercise pattern and distance differentially affect hippocampal and cerebellar expression of FLK-1 and FLT-1 receptors in astrocytes and blood vessels

Stevenson, M. E., Behnke, V. K., & Swain, R. A. (2017) · Behavioural Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2017.09.037 · Cited by 13

The Association between VEGFR Gene Polymorphisms and Stroke: A Meta-Analysis

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VEGF mimic peptides: Potential applications in central nervous system therapeutics

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Lack of collagen XV is protective after ischemic stroke in mice

Dhungana, H., Huuskonen, M. T., Pihlajaniemi, T. A., Heljäsvaara, R., Vivien, D., Kanninen, K. M., Malm, T., Koıstınaho, J., & Lemarchant, S. (2017) · Cell Death and Disease · doi:10.1038/cddis.2016.456 · Cited by 12

Combined treatment of sodium ferulate, n‐butylidenephthalide, and ADSC s rehabilitates neurovascular unit in rats after photothrombotic stroke

Zhao, Y., Liu, N., Ke, C., Liu, B., Chen, Y., Luo, C., Zhang, Q., Xia, Z., & Liu, R. (2018) · Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine · doi:10.1111/jcmm.13894 · Cited by 12

Identification of Id1 as a downstream effector for arsenic-promoted angiogenesis via PI3K/Akt, NF-κB and NOS signaling

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Post-stroke low-frequency whole-body vibration improves cognition in middle-aged rats of both sexes

Kerr, N. A., Sanchez, J., Moreno, W. J., Furones-Alonso, O., Dietrich, W. D., Bramlett, H. M., & Raval, A. P. (2022) · Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnagi.2022.942717 · Cited by 11

New drugs on the horizon for cerebral edema: what’s in the clinical development pipeline?

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Berberine protects against chronic cerebral hypoperfusion-induced cognitive impairment and hippocampal damage via regulation of the ERK/Nrf2 pathway

Wang, N., Tian, Y., Yan, F., Zhao, F., Wang, R., Luo, Y., & Zheng, Y. (2022) · Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy · doi:10.1016/j.jchemneu.2022.102119 · Cited by 11

Biomarkers for ischemic stroke subtypes: A protein-protein interaction analysis

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Decreased angiogenesis as a possible pathomechanism in cervical degenerative myelopathy

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The role of vascular endothelial growth factor in the regulation of development and functioning of the brain: new target molecules for pharmacotherapy

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Leukemia Inhibitory Factor Decreases Neurogenesis and Angiogenesis in a Rat Model of Intracerebral Hemorrhage

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Caveolin-1 Derived from Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells Inhibits Neuronal Differentiation of Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells In Vivo and In Vitro

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The Dual Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Aging and Age-Related Diseases: Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Potential

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The Overexpression of Sonic Hedgehog Associates with Collateral Development and Amelioration of Oxidative Stress in Stroke Patients

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Changes in cerebral autoregulation, stroke‐related blood biomarkers, and autonomic regulation after patent foramen ovale closure in severe migraine patients

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Cerebrovascular Injuries Induce Lymphatic Invasion into Brain Parenchyma to Guide Vascular Regeneration in ZebrafishPreprint

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Translational Insights Into Pericyte-Mediated Regulation of Cerebral Blood Flow: Implications for Ischemic Stroke

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