The College of Science at the University of Basrah organized a seminar entitled (Aryl hydrocarbon receptor and immunity)

by the graduate student aliaa abood mehdi. The study aims  to the importance of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in linking it to external factors, internal factors and components of immunity represented by immune cells and thus stimulating them to secrete interleukins important in the immune response and immune tolerance and included  defining the aryl hydrocarbon receptor and how to activate it by external bonds represented by pollutants, sunlight, foodstuffs, microbes and internal bonds represented by metabolic products in the body and how it takes two pathways inside the cell, which in turn expresses genes important in the inflammatory response and other genes in detoxification and other genes important in stimulating functions The study also included its composition and presence within cells, cells and tissues that express it, the functional relationship between the links and factors stimulating this receptor, and the physiological and pathological role within the body.