The aim of this paper is to study the behaviour by the ground field extension k->k(t) of the quasicoefficient fields of the localization at the maximal ideals of a certain type of commutative fc-algebras (k a field of characteristic zero), not necessarily finitely generated.The chief motivation for the present work is to be found in the proof of the existence of the Bernstein-Sato polynomial [1,6,3] given by Mebkhout and Narvaez in [9,10]. This proof depends on the following results.(a) Let A be a noetherian, regular, equicodimensional /c-algebra, such that the residue fields at the maximal ideals are algebraic over k. Then A ® k k(t) is equicodimensional of the same dimension as A. (b) Let A be a ^-algebra as above, of dimension n. Let us assume, in addition, that there are x 1 ,...,x n eA,d 1 ,...,S n e Der fc (^4) such that S^x,) = <5 y , and let S) Alk be the ring of A>linear differential operators of A. Then the homological dimension of k(t) ® k @ A/k is equal to the homological dimension of @ A/k . The second result is a consequence of our main theorems (2.3) and (2.5) (see Theorem (3.4)). In [9,10] one can find another proof of (b) independent of Theorems (2.3), (2.5) (see Remark (3.5)). We have thought it useful to publish our results as an issue independent from the source problem, mainly due to their purely algebraic character, and their close relationship with another development in [5,13, 2].In §1 we include some results of Mebkhout and Narvaez [9, 10] about the preservation of equicodimensionality by the ground field extension k^-k(t). These results are used in §2, so we repeat them here for the sake of completeness.In §2 we give the main result of this paper.(2.5). Let A be a noetherian, regular, equicodimensional k-algebra of dimension n, whose residue fields at the maximal ideals are k-algebraic. Let us assume, in addition, that there are x x , ...,x n eA, S lt ...,S n eDer k (A) such that S^x,) = 5 i} . Then, for every maximal ideal m c A{t): = k(t) ® k A, one has that K m = {aeA(t) m \5<(a) = OforallSeDer^A)} (where S e is extended derivation) is a quasicoefficient field of A(t) m .Note that this result is closely related to [8, Theorem 30.1] (see Remark (2.6)). In §3 the preceding results are used to prove (b) above.