Aryl hydrocarbon receptor

Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Activation

Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor and Stem Cells

From the biochemical point of view, the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a highly conserved, developmentally regulated, and ligand-activated member of the bHLH/PAS family of transcription factors. The AHR was originally discovered because of the human and animal toxicity of its most potent and persistent ligand, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-pdioxin, usually just referred to as “dioxin.” The can...

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor and lung cancer.

The leading cause of lung cancer is exposure to cigarette smoke and other environmental pollutants, which include formaldehyde, acrolein, benzene, dioxin, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs and dioxins are exogenous ligands that directly bind to the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), a transcription factor that activates xenobiotic metabolism, histone modification (an important ste...

Wistar Han Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR)

Unknown, but the effects seem limited. Rats homozygous for the mutant allele have a dramatically increased LD50 for 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and PCDD (penta-), but not HCDD (hexa-). Overall, the tissue distribution and excretion of TCDD in rats homozygous for the AhR mutation is similar to that of the Long-Evans rat, which was used as a dioxin-sensitive control strain. Reprodu...

New Trends in Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Biology

Traditionally considered as a critical intermediate in the toxic and carcinogenic response to dioxin (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, TCDD), the Aryl hydrocarbon/Dioxin receptor (AhR) has proven to be also an important regulator of cell physiology and organ homeostasis. AhR has become an interesting and actual area of research mainly boosted by a significant number of recent studies analyz...