Type of donor

Patients and controls that meet the following criteria.

Inclusion criteria:

• Be between 18 and 65 years old.
• Have a surgical intervention scheduled to allow the extraction of fatty tissue.
• Sign informed consent.

Exclusion criteria:

• Not fulfilling any of the inclusion criteria.
• Have acute infections and / or inflammation.
• Be diagnosed with infectious diseases.
• Be in oncological treatment.
• Pregnant or breastfeeding women.
• Being diagnosed with systemic diseases (lupus, rheumatic arthritis, etc.).

Number: over 1800 donors

Type of samples

Fatty tissue (different anatomical origins), serum, plasma, buffy coat and faeces.

Collection points

It is a multi-role collection led by the IDIBGI Biobank (Coordinating node):

• Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr. Josep Trueta (Girona)
• Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía (Cordoba)
• Hospital Virgen de la Victoria (Malaga)
• Clínica Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona)
• Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago (Santiago de Compostela)

Purpose

Fatbank is a technological platform to support research promoted by CIBERobn, which hosts the first biological bank specialized in fatty tissue. This bank was created in order to obtain a collection of fatty tissue that is useful to investigate its relationship and incidence in the progress of several diseases.

Fatty tissue is a very abundant organ in the human body. It is located in several anatomical areas and its function varies depending on where it is. Apart from being a tissue that serves as an energy store, it produces a series of substances that are released into the blood stream and can influence the subsequent onset of high prevalence diseases such as obesity, diabetes mellitus and arteriosclerosis, among others. In order to better understand how these substances act, we must study the cells that are part of this fatty tissue.