Abstract
It has been long my view that the biocalorimetry is perhaps most effectively used for the kinetic analysis of microbial cultures. This paper is a review article of the research works conducted mainly in the author's group and deals with our method for the calorimetric characterization of the biological effects of drugs and other chemicals on metabolic activities of living cells. The same principle was also adapted to a quantitative estimation of food putrefaction and of environmental pollution studies. The article also includes a proposal to determine calorimetrically the germination activity of plants seeds with the conclusion that our calorimetric method can be used for the quantitative investigation of the viable activity of various cellular processes.
