Cost-utility analysis of magnetoencephalography used to inform intracranial electrode placement in patients with drug resistant epilepsy: a model based analysis.

Objectives: We estimated the cost-effectiveness of adding magnetoencephalography to a standard assessment for epilepsy surgery consisting of neuropsychology, magnetic resonance imagining, scalp electroencephalography, video electroencephalography and intracranial electroencephalography, in the capacity of informing intracranial electroencephalography electrode placement.

Methods: We used Microsoft Excel (2007) to construct a decision model. Discounted costs and quality adjusted life years are aggregated to calculate incremental cost-effectiveness ratios.

Transcription factor Runx1 inhibits proliferation and promotes developmental maturation in a selected population of inner olfactory nerve layer olfactory ensheathing cells.

The olfactory system undergoes persistent regeneration throughout life. Olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) are a specialized class of glia found exclusively in the olfactory system. OECs wrap olfactory sensory neuron axons and support their growth from the olfactory epithelium, and targeting to the olfactory bulb, during development and life-long regeneration.