He and other scientists said the males could be producing milk as a result of eating phytoestrogens, estrogen-like compounds found in some plant leaves.

Two authors of the report state a possible connection between estrogen-like compounds in the environment and increased incidence.

For one, although both receptors strongly react to estradiol, they part ways when it comes to their ability to unite with other estrogens or estrogen-like compounds.

The estrogen-like compound, though it activated the usual smell-related regions in women, lighted up the hypothalamus in men.

It is an estrogen-like compound that acts in the breast as an antiestrogen, preventing the natural hormone from stimulating the growth of breast cancer cells.

It is an estrogen-like compound that in some tissues blocks the effect of estrogen and in other tissues works in a similar way to estrogen.

Red clover contains isoflavones (estrogen-like compounds) which can mimic the effect of endogenous estrogen.

Heterosexual men, on the other hand, have a similar response to an estrogen-like compound found in women's urine.

Tumors can be stimulated to grow when estrogen or estrogen-like compounds bind to receptors sometimes present in cancer cells.

In southern Alberta longnose dace are exposed to organic, estrogen-like compounds.