In order to understand the physiological basis for vaccines, we must first begin by studying the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems and how they participate in host immune defenses.
Instructions:
1. You are receiving an intra-muscular vaccination in your right deltoid muscle. Examine how the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems participate in host immune defenses through responding to the following with a post of at least 300 words.
- Describe the anatomical locations of major organs in the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems.
- Differentiate how blood flow is different from lymph flow.
- Describe the homeostatic mechanisms that create a microbiota free environment in blood and lymph.
- Trace the path of the vaccine through the body and describe how it reaches all parts of the body via blood and lymphatic vessels.