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Tadao HAMA (19xx-19xx)

Professor Tadao Hama, a patriarch of Japanese pigment cell biology, at the Third International Symposium on Comparative Endocrinology held in Oiso, Japan in 1961. (after Bagnara, J.T., Pigment Cell Res. 12: 48-65 (1999)).

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Yasutomi M, Hama T 1973. .: Structural changes of drosopterinosomes (red pigment granules) during the erythrophore differentiation of the frog, Rana japonica, with reference to other pigment-containing organelles.; Z. Zellforsch., 137: 331-343 (1973).

Yasutomi M, Hama T 1972. .: Electron microscopic study on the xanthophore diffrentiation in Xenopus laevis, with special reference to their pterinosomes.; J. Ultrastruct. Res., 38: 421-432 (1972).

Yasutomi M, Hama T 1971. .: Ultrastructural study of the developmental change of the xanthophore in the frog, Rana japonica with special reference to pterinosomes.; Develop., Growth Differen., 13: 141-149 (1971).

Hama, T., M. Yasutomi and I. Takeuchi 1971. .: Electron microscopic study on differentiation of the chromatophores in the medaka. (Abstract, in Japanese.); Zool. Mag.,80:451-452 (1971).

Kamei-Takeuchi, I. and T. Hama 1971. .: Structural change of pterinosome (pteridine pigment granule) during the xanthophore differentiation of Oryzias fish.; J. Ultrastr. Res., 34:452-463.

Hama, T. 1970a.: On the coexistence of drosopterin and purine (Drosopterinosome) in the leucophore of Oryzias latipes (Teleostean Fish) and the effect of phenylthiourea and melamine.; In "Chemistry and Biology of Pteridines" (Proc. 4th Inter. Symp. on Pteridines. Toba, 1969)(Iwai K, Akino M, Goto M and Iwanami Y, eds), pp. 391- 398, Internat. Acad. Printing Co. Ltd., Tokyo.

Hama, T. 1970b.: Biological and biochemical properties of the leucophore in the medaka. (Abstract, in Japanese.); Zool. Mag., 79:352-353.

Hirao, S., Kikuchi, R. and Hama, T.: The carotenoids of the medaka, Oryzias latipes, a teleost; Bull. Jap. Soc. Sci. Fish. 35(2), 187-198 (1969)

Kamei-Takeuchi I, Eguchi G, Hama, T,1968: Ultrastructure of the pteridine pigment granules of the larval xanthophore and leucophore in Oryzias latipes (teleostean fish).; Proc. Japan Acad. 44, 959-963 (1968)

Hama, T. and Hasegawa, H. 1967: Studies on the chromatophores of Oryzias latipes (Teleostean fish): Behavior of the pteridine, fat and carotenoid during xanthophore differentiation in the color varieties.; Proc. Japan Acad. 43, 901-906 (1967)

Hama T, 1967: Nouvelle demonstration de la coexxistence de la drosopterine et de la purine dans le leucophore de medaka (Oryzias latipes, Teleosteen).; Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. (Paris), 161: 1197-1200 (1967).

Hama, T. 1966.: Relationship between oil, pterine and carotinoid in Xanthophores, guanophores and colorlers melanophores of the medaka. (Abstract, in Japanese.); Japan. J. Exp. Morphol., 20:117.

Hama T, Goto T, Tohnoki Y and Hiyama Y, 1965: The relation between the pterins and chromatophores in the medaka, Oryzias latipes.; Proc. Japan Acad. 41, 305-309 (1965)

Hama T, Fukuda S,1964: The role of pteridines in pigmentation.; In: Pteridine Chemistry (Pfleider W and Taylor EC, eds.) , pp. 495-505 (1964),Pergamon Press, London.

Hama T,1963: The relation between the chromatophores and pterin compounds.; Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 100: 977-986 (1963).

Hama T, Obika M, 1960: Pterin synthesis in the amphibian neural crest cell.; Nature187: 326-327 (1960).

Matsumoto J, Kajishima T, Hama T,1960: Relation between the pigmentation and pterin derivatives of chromatophores during development in the normal black and transparent scaled types of goldfish (Carassius auratus).; Genetics 45: 1177-1189 (1960).