Failure of neutrophils to recover their ability to produce superoxide after stunning by a conventional, acidic, lactate-based peritoneal dialysis solution.

: Exposure of human neutrophils to conventional, acidic, lactate-based peritoneal dialysis solutions for 5 minutes results in a depression of superoxide generation. In spite of restoration of extracellular pH to 7.4, these stunned cells failed to recover their ability to generate the anion after a period of an hour.