FGFR2 and pancreatic neoplasm: To this aim, we assessed the expression levels of the epithelial and the mesenchymal variants of FGFR2 (FGFR2b and FGFR2c, respectively) in PANC-1 and MiaPaCa-2 pancreatic tumor cell lines, selected for different levels of FGFR2c [10,11], and we compared them with those observed in human keratinocyte HaCaT cell line and normal human fibroblasts (HFs), used as positive controls for FGFR2b and FGFR2c expression, respectively.