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Airway disorders in a horse are relieved by electrical stimulation of the airway tissue. Particular disorders and techniques include electrical stimulation to relieve laryngeal hemiplegia. A pacemaker processor generates an electrical treatment signal to be applied to upper airway tissue of the horse for treating the upper airway disorder. One or more stimulation electrodes interfaces with the upper airway tissue for delivering the treatment signal to the upper airway tissue.

The invention provides a nonmetallic implant screw locking structure which is simple in structure, novel in design, simple to produce and very convenient to clinically operate. The nonmetallic implantscrew locking structure is applicable to traumatic bone plates, spinal fusion cages, spinal fixing plates, cervical posterior single-opening door plates, cervical posterior plates, lumbar anterior plates, lumbosacral plates and other nonmetallic implants, and good economic and social benefits can be created gradually.

Compounds that reduce serum retinol, serum RBP, and / or serum retinol-RBP levels may be used to treat ophthalmic conditions associated with the overproduction of waste products that accumulate during the course of the visual cycle. We describe methods and compositions using such compounds and their derivatives to treat, for example, the macular degenerations and dystrophies or to alleviate symptoms associated with such ophthalmic conditions. Such compounds and their derivatives may be used as single agent therapy or in combination with other agents or therapies.

A memory alloy artificial cervical intervertebral disc comprises an artificial intervertebral disc body and a support plate sleeved with the artificial intervertebral disc body, wherein the artificial intervertebral disc body has conicity; drop preventing reverse stings are distributed on the upper and lower surfaces of the artificial intervertebral disc body; fixed branches are arranged at the two sides of the upper and lower surfaces; and drop preventing pawls are respectively arranged at the two ends at the inner side of each fixed branch. The intervertebral disc has simple process and shape, is easy to deform and insert, is stable in installation after complex, is convenient to use in operation, is secure and reliable in fixation, maintains the cervical vertebra motion range, reduces adjacent vertebral body complications, not only shortens the operation time and simplifies the operation, but also dispenses with bone removal and grafting, reduces more pains of the patient, maintains or increases the motion range of the vertebral articulations with lesions to some extent, avoids load of the adjacent vertebral articulations from increasing after fusion and fixation of the vertebral articulations with lesions, slows down degeneration of the adjacent vertebral articulations and realizes the aims of maintaining the movement functions and delaying and reducing secondary degeneration of the adjacent segments.