For the Week 4 discussion forum, you will answer the following questions using your critical thinking and reasoning skills:
1. In treating a woman for malignancy in the left breast, the surgeon removes some of her axillary lymph nodes. Following surgery, the patient experiences edema in her left arm. Explain why.
2.Anti-B antibodies of a type-A mother rarely affects the RBCs of a type B fetus. Yet anti-D antibodies of an Rh woman sometimes cross the placenta and hemolyze the RBCs of an Rh+ fetus. Explain this difference based on your knowledge of the five immunoglobulin classes.
3. How does the structure of a B cell differ from that of a plasma cell? Explain how their structural difference relates to their functional difference.