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Background: Several studies have explored the prognostic value of MicroRNA-153 (miR-153) in various cancers, but obtained inconsistent results. Thus, we conducted a meta-analysis to assess the prognostic significance of miR-153 for patients with cancer. Methods: Eligible studies were identified by searching the online databases Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, Medline,and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) up to March 2020. Hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% CIs and were calculated to clarify the correlation between miR-153 expression and prognosis of different cancers. Odds ratios (ORs) with 95% CI were selected to appraise the correlation between miR-153 with clinicopathological characteristics of cancer patients. Results: In total, 933 patients from 11 articles were enrolled in our meta-analysis. The results revealed that low miR-153 expression was significantly correlated with poor overall survival (OS) (HR = 2.45, 95% CI = 1.66–3.63, P < .001), but not with disease-free survival (DFS) (HR = 1.67, 95% CI = 0.45–6.19, P = .442). Subgroup analysis found that low miR-153 expression was associated with worse OS in the reported directly from articles group (HR = 2.67, 95% CI: 1.32–5.37, P = .006), survival curves group (HR = 2.10, 95% CI: 1.56–2.84, P < .001), digestive system tumor (HR = 2.76, 95% CI: 1.73–4.41, P < .001), and breast cancer (HR = 4.01, 95% CI: 1.46–11.04, P = .007). Moreover, cancer patients with low miR-153 expression were prone to poor tumor differentiation(poor vs well+moderate, OR = 2.41, 95% CI = 1.52–3.82, P < .001), earlier lymph node metastasis (present vs absent, OR = 2.19, 95% CI = 1.12–4.25, P = .021) and earlier distant metastasis (present vs absent,OR = 8.24, 95% CI = 2.93–23.21, P < .001), but not associated with age,gender and TNM stage. Conclusions: This meta-analysis indicated that low miR-153 expression is associated with poor prognosis. miR-153 may serve as an effective predictive biomarker for tumor prognosis, especially for digestive system tumor and breast cancer.

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An efficient analytical method for the quantitative determination of migration levels of antioxidants and ultraviolet absorbents in food contact materials by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has been developed. The analytical method showed good linearity with the correlation coefficients (r2) > or = 0.999 8 for all the compounds. The limits of detection were between 0.01 mg/L and 0.22 mg/L and the limits of quantification were in the range of 0.03 to 0.85 mg/L for the 23 analytes. According to the European Union Directive No 10/2011, five food simulants were investigated: 30 g/L acetic acid, 10% (v/v) ethanol, 20% (v/v) ethanol, 50% (v/v) ethanol, and fatty food simulant (isooctane). The recoveries were in the range of 92.8%-117.7%, with the relative standard deviations of 0.95%-9.72%. The effects of different experimental conditions on the recoveries of antioxidants and UV absorbents were studied. The results showed that the method is accurate and stable, and can meet the requirements of European Commission Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 and GB 9685-2008 for the specific migration limits (SML) of the antioxidants and ultraviolet absorbents in real food contact plastic materials and article samples. The method has been applied to determine the migration levels of antioxidants and ultraviolet absorbents in different simulants from the migration tests of 30 batches of food contact material samples.