Oculomotor deficits in aryl hydrocarbon receptor null mouse.
The Aryl hydrocarbon Receptor or AhR, a ligand-activated transcription factor, is known to mediate the toxic and amrutharishtam price carcinogenic effects of various environmental pollutants such as 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD).Recent studies in Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster show that the orthologs of the AhR are