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Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2018 Feb 22;50:109–118. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.02.003

Table 2.

Viral strategies for targeting specific cell types in non-human primate brain

Cell type	Promoter	Viral Vectors	Species	Reference
Ubiquitous	elongation factor 1α (Ef1α) chicken β-actin (CAG)	AAV, Lentivirus	Macaque	[81,82]
Ubiquitous	CMV	AAV	Macaque Marmoset	[54,83]
Neuron	human Synapsin-1 hThy-1	AAV, Lentivirus	Macaque	[56,82]
Excitatory neuron	mouse calcium-calmodulin kinase-2α(CamK2α)	AAV, Lentivirus	Macaque Marmoset	[51–54]
GABAergic neuron	Mouse distalless homeobox 5 and 6 enhancer	AAV	Marmoset	[55]
Dopaminergic neuron	300-bp fragment of the 5′ tyrosine hydroxylase(TH) promoter	AAV	Macaque	[57]
Dopaminergic/noradrenergic neuron	a 3.1 kb proximal promoter fragment of the rhesus monkey tyrosine hydroxylase promoter	Lentivirus	Macaque	[56]
Cerebellar Purkinje cell	1 kb L7/Pcp2 promoter	AAV	Macaque	[58]
Astrocyte 0.3-kb	Callithrix jacchus GFAP (cjGFAP) promoter	AAV	Marmoset	[59]