RUNX2 and chronic kidney disease: Previously, we observed the alterations in osteoblastogenesis process in bone of our rats with CKD, with the significantly increased expression of genes involved in the early stages of osteoblastogenesis, like FOXO1, ATF4, RUNX2, and ALP, whereas the expression of marker of the late stage of osteoblast differentiation, BGLAP, was only slightly increased.