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Available online /content/5/3/131 Commentary B cells as a therapeutic target in autoimmune disease J?rg J Goronzy and Cornelia M Weyand Departments of Medicine and Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Corresponding author: J?rg J Goronzy (e-mail: goronzy.jorg@) Received: 6 Jan 2003 Revisions requested: 5 Feb 2003 Revisions received: 17 Feb 2003 Accepted: 25 Feb 2003 Published: 19 Mar 2003 Arthritis Res Ther 2003, 5:131-135 (DOI 10.1186/ar751) ? 2003 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1478-6354; Online ISSN 1478-6362) Abstract Depleting B cells with anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodi