• Dibyendu Mandal
• Sandip Bag
• Swati Sikdar
• Kumaresh Halder

Collagen being the principal protein in physiological system, its demand for research, cosmetics, prosthetics, implants are always very high. The price of commercial collagen is quiet hefty and extensive delays occurs in delivery. This is the reason which has given path to extraction of nascent collagen from fish skin which will provide a base to the researcher fraternity for research on scaffolding and tissue engineering with non-commercial collagen. In this work, Indian catfish has been used for the extraction as the skin of the fish has high fat and protein content. Due to the slimy skin of the fish, the concentration and content of the collagen is high. The collagen extracted showed eminent footprints of the Type I collagen with predominant peaks of Amide A, B and Amide I, II & III observed in FTIR plots. The Electron microscopy has shown spiral structure with few open spaces which are ideal for development of composites for prosthesis, scaffolding and targeted drug delivery.

Collagen, FTIR, Scaffold, Drug delivery, SEM

"Extraction and Characterization of Acid soluble Collagen Type I from Sperata Aor ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no.c136-c140, January-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301218.pdf

"Extraction and Characterization of Acid soluble Collagen Type I from Sperata Aor ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no. ppc136-c140, January-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301218.pdf