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Available online /supplements/10/S1/S5 Review Abatacept in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis Maya H Buch, Edward M Vital and Paul Emery Academic Unit of Musculoskeletal Disease, University of Leeds, Chapeltown Road, Leeds, LS7 4SA, UK Corresponding author: Paul Emery, p.emery@leeds.ac.uk Published: 15 October 2008 Arthritis Research Therapy 2008, 10(Suppl 1):S5 (doi:10.1186/ar2416) This article is online at /supplements/10/S1/S5 ? 2008 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract universal benefit from TNF-α blocking therapies [11], how- ever, has focused attention on alternative immuno