Chitin and Collagen

<p>This reprint includes recent trends in all aspects of applied scientific research on chitin and collagen including isolation purification and characterization. A few recent innovations in chitin and collagen have been incorporated into this reprint. These innovations could potentially be applied in various scientific and industrial research. Due to its broad array of biological functions such as anticancer antimicrobial bone tissue regeneration antioxidant and anti-aging activities collagen has recently attracted vast interest in the pharmaceutical nutraceutical and cosmeceutical industries. Similarly chitin and chitin-derived chitosan have many applications including in the medical environmental and agricultural sectors.</p>