ecancermedicalscience template manuscript paper Magnesium-wasting associated with epidermal-growth-factor receptortargeting antibodies in colorectal cancer: a prospective study Arnold A Brown1, Brian B Collins 1, 2 and Catherine C Dunn3§ 1Science Department, University College London, College House, College Road, London, WC1E 6BT, UK 2Department of Biology, Oxford, University House, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK 3Marine Department, Institute of Marine Biology, Milan, 20136, Italy §Corresponding author Email addresses: AAB: Arnold@UCL.co.uk BBC: Brian@oxford.co.uk CCD: Catherine@IMB.it tel: +44 (0)171 224 526 tel: +44 (0)161 334 334 tel +39 (0) 223 223 223 Abstract Text for this secton TRIAL REGISTRATION Please list your trial registry and the unique identifying number. Background Text for this section Methods Text for this section Results Text for this section Sub- heading for this section Text for this sub-section Sub- heading for this section Text for this sub-section Sub- heading for this section Text for this sub-section Discussion Text for this section Conclusions Text for this section Conflicts of interest Declare if there is no conflict of interest, otherwise please complete the ’Conflict of Interest’ form Authors' contributions Please complete the authors’ contributions form. Acknowledgements Text for this section References 1. Smith A (2007) Structure of DNA Journal of Cancer 96 123–7 2. Brown B and Jones A (2004) Cancer incidence and mortality in Europe Oncology 16 448–81 3. Chambers AC, Collins A and Robinson C (2004) Cancer: A Laboratory Manual (Berlin: Springer) 4. Advisory Committee on Animal experiments (2002) Annual Report Milan, Italy Figures Figure 1: Sample figure title Figure legend text Figure 2: Another sample figure title Figure legend text Tables Table 1: Sample table title Table legend text Table 2: Another sample table title Table legend text The Accession Numbers of any nucleic acid sequences, protein sequences or atomic coordinates cited in the manuscript should be provided, in square brackets and include the corresponding database name; for example, [EMBL:AB026295, EMBL:AC137000, DDBJ:AE000812, GenBank:U49845, PDB:1BFM, Swiss-Prot:Q96KQ7, PIR:S66116]. End of sample article