MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Taste (gustation) and smell (olfaction) are called chemical senses because both have sensory receptors that respond to molecules in the food we eat or in the air we breathe.

Detailed explanation-2: -Professor Pierre Lledo introduces the two main chemical senses-smell (olfaction) and taste. They are two main chemical senses. One is called the sense of smell (or olfaction), and the other one is taste.

Detailed explanation-3: -Your sense of smell-like your sense of taste-is part of your chemosensory system, or the chemical senses. Your ability to smell comes from specialized sensory cells, called olfactory sensory neurons, which are found in a small patch of tissue high inside the nose. These cells connect directly to the brain.

Detailed explanation-4: -Whenever a detectable molecule, or odorant, attaches to an olfactory receptor, it generates a tiny electrical impulse. As these currents enter the complex network of the brain, it can quickly (sometimes within just two or three synapses, in a tenth of a second) recognize the odor.

Detailed explanation-5: -Olfactory receptors (ORs), also known as odorant receptors, are chemoreceptors expressed in the cell membranes of olfactory receptor neurons and are responsible for the detection of odorants (for example, compounds that have an odor) which give rise to the sense of smell.