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Forty sexually mature female mice were uniformly divided into four groups: sham, cervical excision, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) injection, and cervical excision plus LPS injection. Partial cervical tissue excision was performed at five weeks of age before mating. LPS was injected into the lower right uterine horn near the cervix on gestational day 16. Mice were sacrificed immediately postpartum. Uterine cervices were collected and subjected to quantitative real-time PCR. Col4\u03b11 and Col5\u03b11 expression increased significantly in the cervical excision plus LPS injection group compared to the sham group (p &lt; 0.01 and p = 0.024, respectively). MMP-14 expression levels increased in the cervical excision plus LPS injection group compared to the sham group (p &lt; 0.01). TIMP-1 expression was not significantly decreased in this group. Increased expression levels of Col4\u03b11, Col5\u03b11, and MMP-14 were associated with cervical excision plus inflammation-induced preterm labor. 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