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Abstract
The effects of etomidate in an alcoholic vehicle and in a lipid-emulsion as well as those of propofd on N-formyl-methionyHeucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP-) and zymosan-induced oxygen radical poduction of neutrophils were examined and compared with the effects of their respective vehicles. Furthermore free-radical scavenging capacities of these medications were investigated. The doseresponse effects of etomidate, propofol and their respective vehicles on neutrophil function were tested by FMLP- and zymosan-induced chemiluminescence of neutrophils and, in addition, in a cell-free chemiluminescence system. Effects of commercial preparations of etomidate were generally not drug-specific but due to the vehicles and/or to unphysiologic osmolality values. Propofol impaired chemiluminescence of neutrophils in a drug-specific manner, even in the therapeutic concentration range. Free-radical scavenging contributed to this depression ot chemiluminescence of neutrophils by propofol. Different composition of the lipid-emulsions of etomidate and propofol resulted in either a stimulation or suppression of chemiluminescence of neutrophils. Propofol but not etomidate impairs chemiluminescence of neutrophils drug-specifically. Besides a potential interaction with the neutrophils, free-radical scavenging accounts for this suppression.