Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Improves Myocardial Functional Recovery Following Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

This is the first demonstration that exogenous VEGF administration acutely improves myocardial functional recovery after ischemia. These findings may help elucidate the role of VEGF in acute stem-cell-mediated paracrine effects and suggests that isolated VEGF may be of therapeutic value.