AHR and neoplasm: Moreover, using a 3D fibrin gel model, a recent study found that IFN-γ induced apoptosis of differentiated tumor cells; however, if both IDO1 and AhR were highly expressed in the tumor-repopulating cells, IFN-γ induced p27 instead, which attenuated STAT1 signaling, preventing tumor cell death and promoting tumor cell dormancy [122].