The present invention provides a model animal with favorite onset of
rheumatoid arthritis wherein the severity of arthritis reaches the
maximum level and its onset ratio is a hundred percent, and a screening
method of a remedy for rheumatoid arthritis by using the model animal. A
mouse whose function of immunoglobulin Fc.gamma. receptor IIB gene is
deficient on its chromosome and a wild-type collagen-induced
arthritis-susceptible DBA/1J mouse are backcrossed six times or more, and
a model mouse with favorite onset of rheumatoid arthritis is constructed.
This model mouse with favorite onset of rheumatoid arthritis is immunized
with bovine joint-origin type II collagen to develop collagen-induced
arthritis.