TABLE 1.
Summary of cell types and circuit pathways where CAV had been used for circuit analysis.
| System | Circuit | Effector | References |
| Cholinergic | DBB → arcuate nucleus | tdTomato | Herman et al., 2016 |
| LDTg → VTA | hM3D(Gq)-mCherry | Fernandez et al., 2018 | |
| nuclei of Meynert → striatum | GFP | Soudais et al., 2004 | |
| Dopaminergic | SNc → striatum | GFP | Soudais et al., 2004 |
| TH | Sotak et al., 2005 | ||
| Robinson et al., 2007 | |||
| RG, TVA-mCherry, GFP, tdTomato, mGFP, SYP-mRuby, GCaMP6f | Lerner et al., 2015 | ||
| VTA → NAc | ArchT-GFP | Luo et al., 2018 | |
| hM3D(Gq)-mCherry, | Boender et al., 2014 | ||
| hM3D(Gq)-mCherry, | Kakava-Georgiadou et al., 2019 | ||
| GFP, NBL10 | Ekstrand et al., 2014 | ||
| eYFP | Reynolds et al., 2018 | ||
| VTA → (NAc, mPFC, Amy) | GFP | Beier et al., 2015 | |
| (VTA, SNc) → Striatum | TH | Hnasko et al., 2006 | |
| VTA → (NAc, BLA) | Fadok et al., 2010 | ||
| Midbrain human organoid | GFP | Brito et al., 2012 | |
| Simão et al., 2016; | |||
| GABAergic | POA → (TMN, PFC) | GFP, RG,TVA-mCherry, mGFP, SYP-mRuby | Chung et al., 2017 |
| mPOA → (PAG, PVN, Amy, VTA) | ZsGreen, mCherry, myrGFP, RG, TVA-mCherry | Kohl et al., 2018 | |
| CeA → (PCRt, PAG) | ChR2-mCherry, GFP | Han et al., 2017 | |
| CeA→ PAG | RG, ArchT-GFP | Xu et al., 2016 | |
| Cervical → lumbar | tdTomato, DTR, SynTag | Ruder et al., 2016 | |
| Glutamatergic | PLC → (NAc, Amy) | GCaMP6f, GFPL10 | Murugan et al., 2017 |
| PLC → PVT | hM3D(Gq)-mCherry, hM4D(Gi)-mCherry | Campus et al., 2019 | |
| GC → BLA | tdTomato | Lavi et al., 2018 | |
| (HPC, mPFC) → LS | GFP, hM3D(Gq)-mCherry, hM4D(Gi)-mCherry | Parfitt et al., 2017 | |
| Cervical → lumbar | tdTomato, DTR, SynTag | Ruder et al., 2016 | |
| mPFC → PAG | ChR2-YFP | Vander Weele et al., 2018 | |
| mPFC → NAc | hM3D(Gq)-mCherry, ChR2-eYFP | Augur et al., 2016 | |
| mPFC → RE | hM4D(Gi)-mCherry | Ramanathan et al., 2018 | |
| mPFC → MDT; MDT→ mPFC | hM4D(Gi)-mCherry | Alcaraz et al., 2018 | |
| (contra. mPFC, MDT, HPC) → mPFC | hM3D(Gq)-mCherry, tdTomato | Miller et al., 2017 | |
| PFC → (NAc, PVT) | GCaMP6; eYFP, ChR2-eYFP, eNpHR-eYFP | Otis et al., 2017 | |
| ACC → HPC | eNpHR, eYFP | Rajasethupathy et al., 2015 | |
| (ORBvl, VC, RSP, contra. ACC) → ACC | tdTomato | Chatterjee et al., 2018 | |
| OFC → striatum | ChR2-eYFP | Hirokawa et al., 2019 | |
| VC → NOT/DTN | tdTomato, DTR-GFP | Liu et al., 2016 | |
| VC → SC | tdTomato | Zingg et al., 2017 | |
| ACtx → IC | GCaMP6s | Asokan et al., 2018 | |
| ChR2-mCherrry | Williamson and Polley, 2019 | ||
| (ACtx, Ath) → striatum | tdTomato, ChR2 | Ponvert and Jaramillo, 2019 | |
| MC → (contra. MC, Me) (OB, HPC, ACtx, Me) → LC | RG, GFP, TVA-mCherry | Schwarz et al., 2015 | |
| MC → (Spinal cord, Contra. MC) | GCaMP6s, tdTomato | Kim et al., 2017 | |
| EC → DG | ChR2-YFP, tdTomato | Leroy et al., 2017 | |
| Periform cortex → (OB, CoA) | ChR2-YFP | Diodato et al., 2016 | |
| Multiple cortices → BPN | eGFP | Tervo et al., 2016 | |
| PBNl → (CeA, MdD) | hM4D(Gi)-mCherry | Carter et al., 2013 | |
| hM4D(Gi)-mCherry, mCherry | Alhadeff et al., 2017 | ||
| hM3D(Gq), PLAP | Barik et al., 2018 | ||
| vMT → (BLA, mPFC, NAc) | hM3D(Gq)-mCherry | Salay et al., 2018 | |
| BLA → mPFC | tdTomato | Vogel et al., 2016 | |
| ChR2-eNpHR-venus | Senn et al., 2014 | ||
| ChR2-mRubby, DsRed, GFP | Li et al., 2018 | ||
| BLA → (NAc, CeA, HPC) | ChR2-eYPF | Beyeler et al., 2016, 2018 | |
| eNpHR-eYFP, eYFP | Namburi et al., 2015 | ||
| (Multiple cortices, SNc, basal nuclei of Meynert, Thalamic nuclei) → Striatum | GFP, LRRK2 | Mestre-Francés et al., 2018* | |
| (DCN, IO, VN, NRTP, etc.) → Cb | GFP | Dopeso-Reyes et al., 2019* | |
| Pontine nuclei → vermis lobule | GFP, RG, TVA-mCherry | Wagner et al., 2019 | |
| LH → LHb | hM4D(Gi)-mCherry, tdTomato | Lecca et al., 2017 | |
| CLA → mPFC | tdTomato | Ährlund-Richter et al., 2019 | |
| HPC → (CeA, BLA) | ChR2-eYFP, RG, TVA, ArchT-GFP, GFP, eNpHR-eYFP | Xu et al., 2016 | |
| POm → M1 | RG, GFP, TVA-mCherry | Mo and Sherman, 2019 | |
| PVT → NAc | GCamP6s | Otis et al., 2019 | |
| preBötC → LC | DTR | Yackle et al., 2017 | |
| Noradrenergic | LC → spinal cord | ChR2-mCherry | Li et al., 2016 |
| LC → (spinal cord, PFC) | PSAM-eGFP | Hirschberg et al., 2017 | |
| LC → (ACtx, Cb, HPC, Me, OB) | RG, GFP, TVA-mCherry | Schwarz et al., 2015 | |
| LC → (BLA, mPFC) | ChR2, mAG1, SYP-mCherry, ArchT-tdTomato | Uematsu et al., 2017 | |
| Oxytonergic | PVN → SON | eGFP; SYP-GFP ChR2-mCherry, hM4D(Gi)-mCherry | Eliava et al., 2016 |
| Serotonergic | DRN → Amy | 5-HT1b, GFP | Liu et al., 2015 |
| Raphe nuclei → NTS | Knockout Tph2 | Wu et al., 2012 | |
| Non-canonical neurotransmitters | PVT → CeA | hM4D(Gi)-mCherry | Penzo et al., 2015 |
| CeA → LC | DTX | Andreoli et al., 2017 | |
| Periphery | Motor neurons → craniofacial muscle | GFP | Bohlen et al., 2019* |
| NG → gut | GFP, rM3D(Gs)-mCherry | Han et al., 2018 |
The citations in this table serve as examples of each type of studies. *Non-human primate studies.