If You Wanted to Design a Drug to Stop the Sense

Question

If you wanted to design a drug to stop the sense of smell,what kind of receptor would you target?
A) photoreceptor
B) chemoreceptor
C) proprioreceptor
D) electroreceptor
E) thermoreceptor

Accepted Answer

The sense of smell is governed by chemoreceptors located in the nasal epithelium, which are responsible for detecting different odorants. Therefore, to stop the sense of smell, a drug would have to target these chemoreceptors.