An object of the invention is to provide a non-human animal which can be
utilized as a model animal well exhibiting a pathological condition of
low-turnover type of osteoporosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease, for screening therapeutic agents for osteoporosis or therapeutic
agents for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc. The invention
includes a non-human animal, wherein a gene coding for CD9 and a gene
coding for CD81 are deficient at least in somatic cells; and a method to
use the non-human animal as an osteoporosis model animal, including a
step of measuring the degree of inhibition in the osteogenesis, and a
method to use the non-human animal as a chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease model animal, including a step of measuring the degree of a
phenotype similar to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.