PUBLICATIONS – T. Hirano
(Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology)
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Tetsuya Hirano - Publication (last 5 years)
1) Breves, J.P., Hasegawa, S., Yoshioka, M., Fox, B.K., Davis, L.K., Takei, Y., Hirano, T.,
and E.G. Grau (2009). Osmoregulatory and endocrine responses of two species of cichlid
fish, Mozambique tilapia and Nile tilapia, to acute salinity challenges. J. Comp. Physiol.
submitted.
2) Breves, J.P., Fox, B.K., Pierce, A.L., Hirano, T., and E. G. Grau (2009). Gene expression of
growth hormone family and glucocorticoid receptors, osmosensors and ion transporters in
the gill during seawater acclimation of Mozambique tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus. J.
Exp. Zool., in press.
3) Fox, B.K., Breves, J.P., Davis, L.K., Hirano, T., and E.G. Grau (2009). Tissue-specific
regulation of the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor axis during fasting and
re-feeding: Importance of muscle expression of IGF-I and IGF-II mRNA in the tilapia. Gen.
Comp. Endocrinol. submitted.
4) Davis, L.K., Fox, B.K., Lim, C., Lerner, D.T., Hirano, T., and E.G. Grau (2009). Effects of
11-ketotestosterone and fishmeal in the feed on growth of juvenile tilapia (Oreochromis
mossambicus). Aquaculture, submitted.
5) Davis, L.K., Fox, B.K., Lim, C., Hiramatsu, N., Sullivan, C.V., Hirano, T., and E.G. Grau
(2009). Induction of vitellogenin production in male tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) by
commercial fish diets. Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 154, 149-154.
6) Watanabe, S., Hirano, T., Grau, E. G., and T. Kaneko (2009). Osmosensitivity of prolactin
cells is enhanced by the water channel aquaporin-3 in a euryhaline Mozambique tilapia
(Oreochromis mossambicus). Am. J. Physiol. 296, R446-453.
7) Kaiya, H., Riley, L.G., Hirano, T., Grau, E.G., Miyazato, M., and K. Kangawa (2009).
Identification and Genomic Sequence of Ghrelin Receptor (GHS-R)-like Receptor in the
Mozambique Tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus. Zool. Sci., in press.
8) Witt, E.M., Laidley, C.W., Liu, K.M., Hirano, T., and E. G. Grau (2009). Correlation
between environmental iodine concentrations and larval growth, survival, and whole body
concentrations of thyroid hormones and cortisol in Pacific threadfin (Polydactylus sexfilis).
Aquaculture 289, 357-364.
9) Uchida, K., Moriyama, S., Breves, J.P., Fox, B.K., Pierce, A.L., Borski, R.J., Hirano, T.,
and E.G. Grau (2009): cDNA cloning and isolation of somatolactin in Mozambique tilapia
and effects of seawater acclimation, confinement stress, and fasting on its pituitary
expression. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol., 161, 162-170.
10) Davis, L. K., Visitacion, N., Riley, L. G., Hiramatsu, N., Sullivan, C. V., Hirano, T., and E.
G. Grau (2009). Effects of o,p’-estradiol on vitellogenin gene
expression and the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-I axis in the tilapia,
Oreochromis mossambicus. Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 149C, 507-514.
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