An object of the present invention is to produce a mammalian organ having
a complicated cellular composition composed of multiple kinds of cells,
such as kidney, pancreas, thymus and hair, in the living body of a
non-human animal. The inventors of the present invention applied the
chimeric animal assay described above, to a novel solid organ production
method. More specifically, the inventors has shown that a model mouse
which is deficient of kidney, pancreas, thymus or hair due to the
dysfunction of the metanephric mesenchyme that is differentiated into
most of an adult kidney, is rescued by blastocyst complementation by the
chimeric animal assay, and whereby a kidney, a pancreas, thymus or hair
can be newly produced.