Lungs too can Smell, Reveals Study

Like the nose, lungs too have odor receptors that can sense smell, says study. Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Iowa have shown that unlike the receptors in your nose, which are located in the membranes of nerve cells, the ones in the lungs are in the membranes of neuroendocrine cells. Instead of sending nerve impulses to your brain that allow it to "perceive" the acrid smell of a burning cigarette somewhere ...