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<div class="field field--name-field-science-topic-description field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p style="margin-bottom:8px">Los sensores son herramientas que detectan y responden a algún tipo de información del entorno físico. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Existe una amplia gama de sensores utilizados en la vida diaria, que se clasifican según las cantidades y características que detectan.</p>
<p>Algunos ejemplos incluyen sensores de corriente eléctrica, magnéticos o de radio, sensores de humedad, sensores de velocidad o flujo de fluidos, sensores de presión, sensores térmicos o de temperatura, sensores ópticos, sensores de posición, sensores ambientales y sensores químicos.</p>
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<div alt="Mujer checando el nivel de glucosa con sensor y teléfono móvil" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;image_style&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="a08daa98-74c2-4ff5-8175-abfc7d6750a8" data-langcode="und" title="Mujer checando el nivel de glucosa con sensor y teléfono móvil" class="embedded-entity"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/glucose-monitor-app-253x169.jpg" alt="Mujer checando el nivel de glucosa con sensor y teléfono móvil" title="Mujer checando el nivel de glucosa con sensor y teléfono móvil" typeof="foaf:Image"></p>
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<figcaption>Un monitor continuo de glucosa contiene enzimas que detectan la glucosa en el líquido entre las células. El teléfono inteligente del usuario recibe lecturas de glucosa del sensor las 24 horas del día. <em>Crédito:</em> iStock.</figcaption>
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<p>En la medicina y la investigación biomédica, hay muchos tipos de sensores que se utilizan para detectar procesos biológicos, químicos o físicos específicos que luego transmiten o reportan esta información a usuarios individuales o profesionales de la salud.</p>
<p>- Los termómetros traducen la expansión de un fluido o la flexión de una tira de metal en respuesta al calor en un valor que corresponde a la temperatura del cuerpo.</p>
<p>- Las tecnologías portátiles, como los relojes inteligentes, llevan sensores que pueden monitorear, analizar y transmitir datos sobre el ritmo cardíaco y los patrones de sueño. Los investigadores están utilizando dispositivos portátiles para monitorear la salud de las personas e incluso predecir y potencialmente intervenir para prevenir casos graves de salud, como un derrame cerebral o un ataque cardíaco.</p>
<p>- Los oxímetros de pulso miden los cambios en la absorción del cuerpo de tipos especiales de luz para medir el ritmo cardíaco y la cantidad de oxígeno en la sangre. Estos sensores se utilizan frecuentemente en hospitales y clínicas, y también se pueden comprar para uso doméstico.</p>
<p>Aunque muchos sensores avanzados no son prácticos para la atención médica de rutina, permiten que los investigadores estudien y aprendan sobre los fundamentos básicos de la enfermedad, lo que podría facilitar el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías.</p>
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<div class="field field--name-field-science-topic-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">¿Qué están desarrollando los investigadores financiados por el NIBIB en el área de sensores para mejorar la investigación biomédica y la atención médica?</div>
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<div class="field field--name-field-science-topic-description field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/ruK4E0C2sEGCMiFIFGX9Rg/project-details/10062973">Nanosensores circulantes para el monitoreo continuo de medicamentos</a><br><br />
Los científicos financiados por el NIBIB están desarrollando sensores que circulan en la sangre y monitorean continuamente las concentraciones de medicamentos para ayudar a mantener niveles terapéuticos y evitar niveles tóxicos altos. Los sensores envían una señal fluorescente que cambia con la concentración del medicamento y puede detectarse a través de la piel. Para permitir que el sensor permanezca en la sangre sin ser eliminado del cuerpo, los sensores están “ocultos” en glóbulos rojos “fantasmas”, que son la capa&nbsp;exterior de los glóbulos rojos. En experimentos con ratones, los sensores diseñados para detectar el litio que llevan dentro los glóbulos rojos fantasmas permanecieron en el flujo sanguíneo durante semanas enviando una señal fluorescente que midió con precisión los niveles de litio en la sangre. Los nanosensores circulantes podrían mejorar la eficacia de los medicamentos si permitieran a los médicos monitorear y ajustar las concentraciones de los medicamentos para mantener niveles terapéuticos óptimos.</p>
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<img alt="Parche epidérmico adherido al antebrazo para monitorear la presión arterial y los metabolites" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="8e9bd5ff-e44c-4b59-8e6d-be957612917c" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Sensors-patch.jpg" width="220" height="137"></p>
<figcaption>Los ingenieros financiados por el NIBIB han desarrollado un parche epidérmico flexible que puede monitorear de manera simultánea y continua el gasto cardiaco y los niveles metabólicos de glucosa, lactato, cafeína o alcohol. El parche es un paso importante hacia el monitoreo continuo no invasivo de la salud. &nbsp;<em>Crédito:</em>&nbsp;Joseph Wang and Sheng Xu, UCSD</figcaption>
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<p><a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/HIiY065fOEyQUqjpw1fyQw/project-details/9670106">Textiles inteligentes para la prevención de trombosis venosa profunda</a><br><br />
La trombosis venosa profunda (TVP) es la formación de coágulos de sangre en las piernas. Causada por la movilidad limitada en pacientes hospitalizados, ancianos y mujeres embarazadas, la TVP puede provocar embolia pulmonar (EP), una afección letal que ocurre cuando los coágulos de las piernas viajan a los pulmones y se fijan en las arterias pulmonares. Los investigadores financiados por el NIBIB están utilizando textiles inteligentes para prevenir la TVP y reducir la incidencia de EP. Los textiles inteligentes llevan sensores que no requieren baterías y son tejidos directamente en calcetines y otras prendas. Los textiles inteligentes pueden detectar de manera remota el movimiento, o la falta de este, que provocaría la TVP y proporcionar automáticamente estimulación mecánica para bloquear la formación de coágulos de sangre. El fin de este enfoque es reducir drásticamente los más de 200,000 casos de EP que ocurren en los EE. UU. cada año.</p>
<p><a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/ruK4E0C2sEGCMiFIFGX9Rg/project-details/10006081">Sensor genético económico para la deficiencia del zinc</a><br><br />
En los países en desarrollo, la falta del micronutriente zinc en la dieta de las madres está asociada con el retraso del crecimiento fetal, el deterioro del aprendizaje y la memoria, y el aumento de morbilidad y mortalidad en los niños. Para facilitar pruebas generalizadas de deficiencia de zinc, los científicos financiados por el NIBIB están utilizando biología sintética para crear un sensor de zinc económico para su uso en entornos de bajos recursos. El enfoque involucra la ingeniería de bacterias que dan una lectura de color en respuesta a la cantidad de zinc en una muestra de sangre. Las lecturas de diferentes colores se basan en la concentración de zinc en la muestra, indicando si los niveles de zinc son aceptables o demasiado bajos (lo que indicaría la necesidad de suplementos de zinc). El biosensor bacteriano portátil de equipo mínimo para micronutrientes sanguíneos permitiría hacer estudios a gran escala de las intervenciones nutricionales para tratar mejor a millones de personas desnutridas en entornos de bajos recursos.</p>
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